Tafheem ul Quran
Surah 6 Al-An'am, Ayat 100-101
وَجَعَلُوۡا لِلّٰهِ شُرَكَآءَ الۡجِنَّ وَخَلَقَهُمۡ وَخَرَقُوۡا لَهٗ بَنِيۡنَ وَبَنٰتٍۢ بِغَيۡرِ عِلۡمٍؕ سُبۡحٰنَهٗ وَتَعٰلٰى عَمَّا يَصِفُوۡنَ
﴿6:100﴾
بَدِيۡعُ السَّمٰوٰتِ وَالۡاَرۡضِؕ اَنّٰى يَكُوۡنُ لَهٗ وَلَدٌ وَّلَمۡ تَكُنۡ لَّهٗ صَاحِبَةٌ ؕ وَخَلَقَ كُلَّ شَىۡءٍ ۚ وَهُوَ بِكُلِّ شَىۡءٍ عَلِيۡمٌ
﴿6:101﴾
(6:100) And yet, some people have come to associate the jinn with Allah in
His divinity,67 even though it is He Who created them; and in ignorance
they impute to Him sons and daughters.68 He is Holy and Exalted far
above that which they attribute to Him. (6:101) He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth. How can He have
a son when He has had no mate? And He has created everything and He has full
knowledge of all things.
Notes
67. Because of man's imaginativeness and superstitious disposition, he has
often held other invisible beings to be associated with God in His governance
of the universe and in making and marring man's destiny. For example, the deity
of rain, and the deity of vegetation, the god of wealth and the god of health,
and so on. Such beliefs are found among all the polytheistic nations of the
world.
68. The ignorant Arabs considered angels to be the daughters of God. In the
same way, other polytheistic nations wove a network of bloodrelationships with
God, producing thereby a whole crop of gods and goddesses descended from the
Creator.