Surah Al-i-‘Imrân 3:6

هُوَ الَّذِي يُصَوِّرُكُمْ فِي الْأَرْحَامِ كَيْفَ يَشَاءُ ۚ

3:6 This verse provides us with yet another argument against the divinity of any human being. Sawwirun صوٌر means, “fashioning”. Sawwirunصَوِّرُ includes detailed formation and the endowment of a child with moral and spiritual faculties. After Allâh brings into existence a body in the womb of a mother, He endows it with the faculties and capacities necessary to fulfil its destiny. It is therefore in the womb of the mother that the foundation of the childs future is laid.

As the formation of the child takes place in the womb, it is also affected by its environment and by the physical and moral conditions of the mother. The reference to the mystery of the birth of a human being prepares us for the mystery of the birth of Jesus. Jesus, whose body, like that of other human beings, was formed in the womb of a woman (Mary), could not escape from being affected by the limitations and failings inherent in a human being, in this case his mother Mary: “She conceived him (Jesus) and withdrew with him to a remote place. The throes of the childs birth (at the time of the delivery) drove her to a trunk of a palm tree” (cf. 19:22-23). This is why in his discussion with the Christians of Najrân the Holy Prophet (pbuh) pointedly referred to the birth of Jesus as an argument against his divinity (Ibn Jarîr). The statement in this verse, “There is not, cannot be and will never be One worthy of worship but He, the All-Mighty, the All-Wise,” has been placed as a natural consequence of the preceding discussion. When it is Allâh who fashions children in the wombs of their mothers, no child born of a woman can claim to be divine (cf. Matt. 24.36).