Maarif-ul-Quran (En) - An-Nahl : 75
ضَرَبَ اللّٰهُ مَثَلًا عَبْدًا مَّمْلُوْكًا لَّا یَقْدِرُ عَلٰى شَیْءٍ وَّ مَنْ رَّزَقْنٰهُ مِنَّا رِزْقًا حَسَنًا فَهُوَ یُنْفِقُ مِنْهُ سِرًّا وَّ جَهْرًا١ؕ هَلْ یَسْتَوٗنَ١ؕ اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ١ؕ بَلْ اَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا یَعْلَمُوْنَ
Allah gives an example: There is a slave owned (by some-one), who has no power over anything, and there is a person whom We have given good provision from Us. And he spends out of it secretly and openly. Are they equal? Praise be to Allah. But, most of them do not know.
In the first of the two examples given in the last two verses, the description is that of a master and a slave, that is, the owner and the owned. By giving this example, it is being said: When these two, despite being from the same genus and the same kind, cannot be equal to each other, how then could you equate someone or something created by Allah with Him?
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