سورة مريم، الآية ٨٨
وَقَالُوا۟ ٱتَّخَذَ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ وَلَدًا ٨٨
waqālū ittakhadha l-raḥmānu waladan
And they say, "The Most Merciful has taken [for Himself] a son."
Verse 88 of Surah Maryam (19:88), a Meccan surah, is in juz 16, on page 311 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.
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The Jews, the Christians and some of the idolaters said: The Merciful has taken a son.
They say, “The Most Compassionate has begotten a son.”
And they say: "The Most Gracious (Allâh) has begotten a son (or offspring or children) [as the Jews say: ‘Uzair (Ezra) is the son of Allâh, and the Christians say that He has begotten a son [‘Îsâ (Jesus) عليه السلام], and the pagan Arabs say that He has begotten daughters (angels and others.)]."
And they say: The Beneficent hath taken unto Himself a son.
They say: "(Allah) Most Gracious has begotten a son!"
And they say: The Beneficent Allah has taken (to Himself) a son.
And they have said, "The All-Merciful has taken to Him a child."
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
وَقَالُوا۟ ٱتَّخَذَ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ وَلَدًا سُبْحَٰنَهُۥ بَلْ عِبَادٌ مُّكْرَمُونَ
And they say, "The Most Merciful has taken a son." Exalted is He! Rather, they are [but] honored servants.
