CHAPTER 5: THE MEANING OF ‘THE LORD’
They said, “Dawud (David, peace be upon him) said in the Psalms (psalm 109), The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.'” (Psalms: 110:1)
The answer is based on these reasons:
One: It is not acceptable that the phrase ‘my lord’ should refer to any of the attributes of God, for neither Dawud nor any of the prophets ascribe an attribute of God whether the Lord or the Son, to describe another. No one has ever said to the Knowledge of God, His Words, or His Power, “O my lord.” Since they do not call the attributes of God ‘lord,’ so if Christ was God’s attribute, it would not be acceptable that he would be the god referred to by the word ‘lord.’ So, how can this be the meaning when his human entity is the farthest from the Divine Entity?
This means, they neither refer to the Divine Entity nor to the human entity.
Two: He said, “The Lord said unto my Lord” thus annexing to the second word not the first, denoting that he is his lord who created Him. The general form of exaggeration according to Christians is to say, “A True God from a True God,” thus making him a creator by being more entitled than the Father, who is the lord of Dawud (David, peace be upon him). Three: There is no mention here whether they interpret the three hypostases as referring to the Son. As for the three hypostases, they were neither mentioned in any of the Books of God, which are in their hands nor in the Qur’an either explicitly or implicitly. They invented the term ‘Hypostasis’ and referred it to what they had made the meaning of the Books of God.
By: Sheikhul-Islaam Ibn Taymiyah
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