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1. Conditional Concession of Divine Sonship:
Surah 43:81 establishes that if God possessed a son, worshipping that son would be the proper response of piety. The verse concedes that divine sonship is not intrinsically impossible or unworthy of worship.
2. Synthesis with Biblical Testimony:
Because earlier Quranic passages validate the historical reliability and presence of prior scriptures (e.g., 43:4, 43:45), and those scriptures explicitly affirm Jesus as the Son of God, the condition set forth in 43:81 is biblically met.
3. Apologetic Inversion:
By linking the verse's logical premise ("If He has a Son, I would worship Him") with the verified content of the Gospel text, the Quran's own conditional framework points toward worshipping the Son.
Surah 43:81 instructs Muhammad to declare that if the Most Merciful had a son, he would be the first to worship him.
This is an extraordinary hypothetical statement given to Muhammad:
Surah 43:81:
Say, 'If the Most Merciful had a son, then I would be the first of worshippers.'
The text admits that if God had a son, worship of that son would be the correct, pious response.
If you take this conditional statement and couple it with the historical and textual reliability of the New Testament (already validated by verses 4, 45, and Surah 25:35). Since the reliable previous scriptures explicitly state that God does have a Son, by the Quran's own logic in 43:81, Muhammad and his followers should be the first to worship Him.