April 26, 2012 - الخميس 05 جمادى الثانية 1433 
Ibn Anwar Does the Qur’an reject the Trinity?
by Ibn Anwar
One of the common objections levelled against the Qur’an is that it misrepresents the doctrine of the Trinity, hence does not reject it in any way. There are three verses that are often used to support this objection:
“O people of the Book, be not excessive in your Faith, and do not say about Allah anything but the truth. The MasīH ‘Īsā, the son of Maryam, is only a Messenger of Allah, and His Word that He had delivered to Maryam, and a spirit from Him. So, believe in Allah and His Messengers. Do not say “Three”. Stop it. That is good for you. Allah is the only One God. He is far too pure to have a son. To Him belongs what is in the heavens and what is in the earth. And Allah is enough to trust in.” (4:171)
“Surely, disbelievers are those who say, “Allah is the third of the three” while there is no god but One God. If they do not desist from what they say, a painful punishment shall certainly befall such disbelievers.” (5:73)
“And when Allah said, “O ‘Īsā, son of Maryam, did you say to the people: ‘Take me and my mother as gods beside Allah?” He said, “Pure are You, it does not behoove me to say what is not right for me. Had I said it, You would have known it. You know what is in my heart, and I do not know what is in Your’s. You alone have full knowledge of all that is unseen.” (5:116)
We will go through the verses one by one and prove that the Qur’an neither misrepresents nor silently concurs with the Trinity as some Christian detractors frequently claim. We will prove that the Qur’an clearly and explicitly denounces the Trinity in whatever form that it may appear.
“And when Allah said, “O ‘Īsā, son of Maryam, did you say to the people: ‘Take me and my mother as gods beside Allah?” He said, “Pure are You, it does not behoove me to say what is not right for me. Had I said it, You would have known it. You know what is in my heart, and I do not know what is in Your’s. You alone have full knowledge of all that is unseen.” (5:116)
The claim that is made regarding the above verse is that it specifically rejects a kind of Trinity consisting of Jesus, Mary and Allah which is certainly not the Trinity of mainstream Christianity. This claim however is without much substance as the verse does not say that this is any form of a Trinity belonging to any particular sect of Christianity. Secondly, even if one were to agree for the sake of argument that the above verse is indeed referring to a form of Trinity consisting of Jesus, Mary and Allah(that is God) then we will point out that there were such groups that existed which believed in such a doctrine. We will go further into this later in the article. The current verse is essentially denying that neither Jesus nor Mary are divine in any way. Dr. Louay Fatoohi writes:
