Tafheem ul Quran
Surah 6 Al-An'am, Ayat 19-19
قُلۡ اَىُّ شَىۡءٍ اَكۡبَرُ شَهَادَةً ؕ قُلِ اللّٰهُ ۙ شَهِيۡدٌ ۢ بَيۡنِىۡ وَبَيۡنَكُمۡ وَاُوۡحِىَ اِلَىَّ هٰذَا الۡـقُرۡاٰنُ لِاُنۡذِرَكُمۡ بِهٖ وَمَنۡۢ بَلَغَ ؕ اَـئِنَّكُمۡ لَـتَشۡهَدُوۡنَ اَنَّ مَعَ اللّٰهِ اٰلِهَةً اُخۡرٰىؕ قُلْ لَّاۤ اَشۡهَدُ ۚ قُلۡ اِنَّمَا هُوَ اِلٰـهٌ وَّاحِدٌ وَّاِنَّنِىۡ بَرِىۡٓءٌ مِّمَّا تُشۡرِكُوۡنَۘ
﴿6:19﴾
(6:19) Ask them: 'Whose testimony is the greatest?' Say: 'Allah is the witness
between me and you;11 and this Qur'an was revealed to me that I should
warn you thereby and also whomsoever it may reach.' Do you indeed testify that
there are other gods with Allah?12 Say: 'I shall never testify such
a thing.' 13 Say: 'He is the One God and I am altogether averse to
all that you associate with Him in His divinity.'
Notes
11. God Himself witnesses that the Prophet (peace be on him) has been designated
by Him and that what he communicated was by His command.
12. In order to bear witness to something, mere guesswork and imagination
are not sufficient. What is required is knowledge on the basis of which a person
can state something with full conviction. Hence. the question means: Did they
really have knowledge of anyone other than God who could lay claim to man's
worship and absolute service by dint of being the omnipotent sovereign, the
one whose will prevailed throughout the universe?
13. The interlocutor is instructed to tell people that if they wanted to
bear false witness and testify without knowledge, they could do so, but that
he himself could not do something so unreasonable.