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Al-Ma’idah 5: 115–17

(115) Allah said: “I shall indeed send it down to you; then I shall afflict whoever among you disbelieves with a chasti- sement wherewith I will afflict none (else) in the world.” (116) And imagine when thereafter Allah will say: “Jesus, son of Mary, did you say to people: ‘Take me and my mother for gods beside Allah?’,57 and he will answer: “Glory to You! It was not for me to say what I had no right to. Had I said so, You would surely have known it. You know all what is within my mind whereas I do not know what is within Yours. You, indeed You, fully know all that is beyond the reach of perception. (117) I said to them nothing except what You commanded me, that is: “Serve Allah, my Lord and your Lord. ▶

57 The Christians were not content merely with deifying Jesus and the Holy Spirit. They even turned Mary, the mother of Jesus, into a full-fledged object of worship. The Bible does not contain even the remotest suggestion that Mary was in any way either divine or superhuman. During the first three centuries after the Messiah, such a concept was totally alien to Christian thinking. Towards the end of the third century of the Christian era, however, some theologians of Alexandria employed, for the first time, the expression “Mother of God” in connection with Mary. Subsequently, belief in Mary’s Divinity and the practice of Mariolatry spread among Christians.

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