وَقَالُوا۟ ٱتَّخَذَ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ وَلَدًا · لَّقَدْ جِئْتُمْ شَيْـًٔا إِدًّا · تَكَادُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتُ يَتَفَطَّرْنَ مِنْهُ وَتَنشَقُّ ٱلْأَرْضُ وَتَخِرُّ ٱلْجِبَالُ هَدًّا
"'al-Raḥmān has taken a child,' they said. You have surely put forward a monstrous thing! At it the heavens are near to splitting apart, the earth to cleaving open, and the mountains to collapsing in ruin."
Three verbs are counted, and all three are on the scale of the universe: yatafaṭṭarna (to split apart), tanshaqqu (to cleave open), takhirru … haddā (to collapse in ruin).
I record this as my own reading: the verse answers the claim not with a proof but with a scale. The weight of what was said is thus pictured as a load the universe could not bear.
إِدًّا — root أ-د-د: something very heavy, terrible, appalling. The word occurs only here in the Qurʾān.
| Verse | Who/what falls | How |
|---|---|---|
| 58 | People | Sujjadan wa bukiyyā — into prostration |
| 90 | The mountains | Haddā — in collapse |
The same verb, one for service and one for ruin. This is a repetition that can be verified within the sūra.
In the thirtieth verse of the sūra Jesus's first words were innī ʿabdu'llāh. The ninety-third verse applies the same word to everyone without exception.
| Verse | Expression | Who |
|---|---|---|
| 30 | Innī ʿabdu'llāh | Jesus — he says it himself |
| 93 | Illā ātiya'r-Raḥmāni ʿabdā | Everyone — without exception |
This is the clearest link in the sūra, and it can be verified from the text. I record this as my own reading: the answer to the claim is given in the words of the very person the claim is about, and is then generalised.
لَّقَدْ أَحْصَىٰهُمْ وَعَدَّهُمْ عَدًّا · وَكُلُّهُمْ ءَاتِيهِ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ فَرْدًا (94-95) — fardan: alone.
And the principle treated in Luqmān 31/33 (lā yajzī wālidun ʿan waladih) comes down here to a single word.