Surah 39:62:
Allah is the Creator of all things, and He is, over all things, a Disposer of affairs.
Surah 39:62 exposes a profound grammatical and theological contradiction concerning the unique nature of God. While this verse establishes a strict, singular monopoly on creation, other passages in the Quran completely undermine this by framing God within a competitive pool of multiple creators.
Surah 39:62 leaves no room for ambiguity: Allah is the creator of all things (Khāliqu kulli shay'). However, the Quran repeatedly uses a comparative plural superlative that directly violates this absolute exclusivity:
Surah 23:14 &, 37:125: Both verses praise Allah as "the Best of Creators" (Aḥsanu l-khāliqīn).
Grammatically, a superlative requires a plural category of comparison. To be the "best of doctors," other doctors must exist. If Allah is the only creator in existence, the phrase "Best of Creators" is a structural error. For a text claiming absolute divine precision, utilizing a linguistic formula that validates the existence of other creators is a glaring logical slip.
Islamic apologists historically attempt to resolve this by arguing that when the Quran mentions other "creators," it means humans who merely reshape or manufacture existing matter, whereas God creates ex nihilo (out of nothing). However, the text itself collapses this defense.
The Contradiction: In Surah 3:49 and, 5:110, Jesus explicitly states: "I create for you from clay the form of a bird (annī akhluqu lakum)..."
The Quran uses the exact same divine Arabic root verb for creation—Khalaqa—to describe Jesus's actions. If Jesus can actively khalaqa a living bird from raw material, then Allah is not the sole entity performing the act of creation, rendering the absolute statement in Surah 39:62 textually inaccurate.
From a historical-critical perspective, phrases like "Best of Creators" or "Lord of Lords" are highly significant. They are recognized as linguistic fossils or remnants of an older evolutionary stage of religion known as henotheism or monolatry—where a tribe recognizes and compares many gods but chooses to worship only the supreme chief deity.
Much like early biblical passages that reflect Israel's transition out of Canaanite polytheism (e.g., "Who is like You among the gods, O Lord?"), the author of the Quran frequently slipped into using the common, regional comparative idioms of the 7th-century Near East. In doing so, the text inadvertently brought polytheistic linguistic structures into a book that violently preaches absolute, solitary monotheism (Tawhid).