The Children of Israel
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[17:111]
and say: "All praise is due to God, who begets no offspring, and has no partner in His dominion, and has no weakness, and therefore no need of any aid" – and [thus] extol His limitless greatness.

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* v.111 : Lit., “who has not taken unto Himself [or “begotten”] a son” – i.e., who is free of the imperfection inherent in the concept of begetting a child as an extension of one’s own being. Since this statement not merely refutes the Christian doctrine of Jesus as “the son of God” but, beyond that, stresses the logical impossibility of connecting such a concept with God, the clause is best rendered in the present tense, and the noun walad in its primary sense of “offspring,” which applies to a child of either sex.
* Lit., “and has no protector [to aid Him] on account of any [supposed] weakness [on His part].”