لَقَدْ كَفَرَ الَّذِينَ قَالُواْ إِنَّ اللّهَ هُوَ الْمَسِيحُ ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ   

وَقَالَ الْمَسِيحُ يَا بَنِي إِسْرَائِيل اعْبُدُواْ اللّهَ رَبِّي وَرَبَّكُمْ

surely he who ascribes partners unto Allah, Allah then, deprives him of Paradise, and his abode is the Fire, and the offenders will find none to their aid."

    The Ayah continues what Jesus Christ was saying to his contemporaries, "Surely, a person who ascribes partners unto Allah, Allah will deprive him of Paradise."  This is the exact same as every Prophet has said.  Every Prophet calls his people to believe in Allah the One, and Jesus was no different.

    Any beliefs different from Allah's teachings are false, and their adherents are blasphemous, and they are disbelievers.  The Messiah Jesus was a good man, a man of truth, a Messenger of Allah, but if his contemporaries ascribed partners to Allah, then Jesus tried to correct them promptly.

Ø The Messiah warned them as this Ayah testifies, if anyone insists on associating partners with Allah he will deviate from Allah's Message.  Such people will deprive themselves of Paradise, instead they will have an abode in Hell-Fire.

Blasphemous are those who say:  "Allah is one of three in a Trinity"  (because) there is no Deity except the One Deity

    Allah emphasizes that it is blasphemy and disbelief to associate any with Him.

    Neither Jesus Christ nor any other Messenger of Allah claimed anything except the Oneness of Allah.  Such notions as the Trinity were added later by the people and unfortunately became a central point of theology in Christianity.  They remain man-made, false, and untrue.

There is no such thing as "the father, the son, and the holy ghost"; instead there is Allah the Exalted, and humans are to worship Him, among whom are the Prophets including the Messiah Jesus.  Angels are to worship Him too, among whom is Gabriel, who is the Holy Spirit itself.   Everything is subject to Allah and His Sovereignty.

وَإِن لَّمْ يَنتَهُواْ عَمَّا يَقُولُونَ لَيَمَسَّنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ مِنْهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ   

And if they do not desist from what they say, then a painful doom will befall the ones who disbelieve.

    The central theme is the Oneness of the Deity, Allah, and for people who do not believe so there is a painful doom awaiting.

    One may ask what is it that makes the Trinity so unwholesome?

    The Trinity is not truthful, it is man-made, it is false, and Allah loves only the truth.  To associate another with Allah reduces the stature of Allah in the minds of His followers.  It is difficult for the human mind to give Allah (swt) what is due Him or to appreciate Him sufficiently, let alone by having man-made theory that reduces that capacity.

    If Allah's image is drastically reduced by associating others with Him, be it a Trinity or otherwise, then the foundation of the faith is undermined.  If this happens, a chain reaction will take place, and the Divine Guidance suffers.

    If Islam has come to confirm what is true and reject what is false in previous religions, if the Trinity is blasphemy and a disbelief, then indirectly Allah is saying that everyone is to follow Islam.

أَفَلاَ يَتُوبُونَ إِلَى اللّهِ وَيَسْتَغْفِرُونَهُ وَاللّهُ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ   

Will they not then turn to Allah and seek His pardon? and Allah is Oft-Forgiving, All-Merciful.

    Allah hasn't closed the door in the face of believers in the Trinity.  Instead, Allah has warned them about the blasphemy while opening the door of His forgiveness.  It is best for such people to turn to Allah and seek His forgiveness, says Allah, since He is the Merciful and the Gracious.

The Messiah, son of Mary, was but a Messenger, Messengers have preceded him,

    This Ayah confirms that the Messiah was a human like any other, and a Messenger of Allah, one in the long chain of Messengers.

    People should not have deified him, nor made him one of three in a Trinity.  The matter is straightforward, simple and clear.

    Jesus, the Messiah, was a privileged man, born to his virgin mother Mary by Allah's direct command.  He was chosen as Allah's Messenger and preached in a correct way, just as other Messengers did.

His mother was a truthful woman;  and both used to take (earthly) food.

    This Ayah testifies that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a righteous woman, a woman of virtue.  Both she and her son were good human beings and they needed to:

    ·   eat like other humans to sustain themselves,

    ·   breathe to live,

    ·   sleep to rest, and they had the same needs as other human beings.

    This in itself is sufficient evidence that the two were just two humans.

The matter concerning Mary is similar to that of her son, Jesus the Messiah, both were good servants of Allah and were honored to be of service to Him.

    There is no place for Mary in a Trinity either, nor to make of her the "Mother of God," or to deify her.

 انظُرْ كَيْفَ نُبَيِّنُ لَهُمُ الآيَاتِ ثُمَّ انظُرْ أَنَّى يُؤْفَكُون  

Behold, how We do make (Our) signs clear to them, yet, behold (how) they are turned away (from the Path)!

    Allah (swt) addresses Muhammad (pbuh) saying:  see how We clear the matter to people, how the Oneness is easy to accept, and for the heart to receive it, and for the mind to acknowledge it.  See how pure and simple the truth is, it is uninvolved and natural—yet many people are in error about it, arrogantly so!

Question them (O' Muhammad):  "Would you rather worship besides Allah what possess for you neither harm nor profit?"  and Allah!  He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing!

    "Which is better," this Ayah says, "to worship Allah the One Supreme Deity, or to worship humans that people deify?  Humans who are like you, who can hardly benefit you or harm you in true sense, since Allah's is the real Power?"

    Naturally our welfare is with Allah (swt) and our destiny is in His gentle hands.  And if the matter is that clear and simple then common sense dictates that we follow Allah.

    Pay attention to the way this Ayah is delivered.  Allah refers to all His creation by the word "Ma" which means "that which".  This is deliberate, so as to put all creation in one category. Thus, Jesus, Mary, Gabriel (the Holy Spirit) are put together in the same category with other creations.  This is to indicate the essence of the nature of the created, which is far removed from the essence of the Creator Himself.