"The question 'Can God have a mother?' cuts to the core of Allah's nature. In Islam, the answer is a clear no—Allah is the Eternal, the Absolute, who begets not, nor is He begotten (Surah Al-Ikhlas, 112:3). To suggest God has a mother implies He has a beginning, a dependency, or a creator of His own, which contradicts the very essence of being God. Allah is the uncaused Cause, the One who brought all existence into being. How could the Creator of everything have a mother?
In the Trinity, the idea that Jesus (peace be upon him), as God, has a mother in Mary introduces this problem. If God is eternal and self-sufficient, He can't be born or rely on anyone—yet a mother-son relationship suggests exactly that. Tawhid rejects this entirely: Allah stands alone, beyond human limitations like family or birth. The Qur'an asks, 'How can He have a son when He has no consort?' (Surah Al-An'am, 6:101). It's a logical point: God's perfection means He's free from such dependencies. This is why Islam calls us to worship Allah as He truly is—One, independent, and eternal."
Surah Al-Ma'idah, 5:116
Christians do not believe Yahweh, or Jesus, has a mother in the sense of origins. There is no "God the Mother" in the bible. Mary is the theotokos or "bearer of God" or "God-bearer". She housed God in her womb and gave birth to him but she didn't create God. Mary is the "mother of God" in the sense that, since Jesus is God and Mary is the mother of Jesus, she is the mother of God. She mothered him. The term theotokos is used as she is not the source or originator of God, but the woman who bore him and raised him when he took on human flesh.
Jesus is eternal and existed before creation and was responsible for creation. He became a man later on but at no point did Jesus have a "beginning". He has always been God and always will be. Mary was the human agent through which the eternal Son of God came into the world as a human being. Jesus is fully God and fully man.