Tafheem ul Quran

Surah 43 Az-Zukhruf, Ayat 15-15

وَجَعَلُوۡا لَهٗ مِنۡ عِبَادِهٖ جُزۡءًا​ ؕ اِنَّ الۡاِنۡسَانَ لَـكَفُوۡرٌ مُّبِيۡنٌ ؕ‏ ﴿43:15﴾

(43:15) Yet they have made some of His servants a part of Him.15 Indeed man is most evidently thankless.


Notes

15. “Assign to some of His slaves a share with Him” implies declaring a servant of Allah His offspring, for an offspring inevitably is homogeneous with and a part of the father’s body, and regarding somebody as Allah’s son or daughter means that he or she is being made a partner in Allah’s Being. Besides, another form of making a creature a part of Allah is that it should be regarded as possessor of the attributes and powers as are specifically Allah’s own, and it should be invoked under the same concept, or rites of worship performed before it, or its sanctities observed and regarded as imperative and binding. For, in that case man divides divinity and provider between Allah and His servants and hands over a part of it to the servants.