In sūrat Maryam, Allāh describes the severity of shirk (associating partners with Allāh), especially the severity of the misguided claims that suggest Allāh, the Most Exalted, has taken a son. This severity is so intense that inanimate objects collapse in reaction to these claims. Just look at the imagery: [The heavens almost rupture therefrom and the earth splits open and the mountains collapse in devastation, That they ascribe to ar-Raḥmān a son.] Maryam:90-91 Sheikh Moḥammed ash-Shanqīṭī comments: “Because of their…