这段经文是对本章为保持信仰纯正、清除基督徒所引入的一切错误与偏离所作的努力的补充。他们使自己的信仰偏离了其神圣的起源与根本原则,背离了对真主绝对独一的信仰。这正是耶稣(愿主福安之)以及此前每一位真主的使者所宣讲的信仰。他们在其中加入了一些与神圣信仰毫不相干的不信之处。

This whole passage serves as a complement to the efforts undertaken in this sūrah to keep faith pure and to purge it from all the errors and deviations Christians have introduced. They forced their faith away from its Divine origins and fundamental principles when they diverted it from belief in the absolute oneness of God. That was the belief preached by Jesus (peace be upon him) and by every former messenger of God. They introduced into it certain aspects of disbelief which had nothing to do with Divine faith.

因此，这段经文旨在确立伊斯兰教所理解的神性以及对真主的崇拜这一真理。这一真理通过经文中描绘的一个宏大场景呈现出来：耶稣在所有真主的使者和全体人类面前声明，他从未对他的民众说过他们所指控的那些话，即他和他的母亲都是神明。他宣称，他绝不可能说出这样的亵渎之言。

As such, this passage aims to establish the truth about Godhead and servitude to God, as these are conceived by Islam. This truth is presented through a great scene portrayed here in which Jesus states in front of all God’s messengers and all humanity that he never said to his people anything of what they have alleged that both he and his mother were deities. He declares that he could have never said any such blasphemy.

该章呈现这一真理的方式，是取材于审判日的一幅生动场景，与《古兰经》描绘那重大日子中各种场景的方式相同。在所有这类描绘中，画面都以如此感人、生动而有力的方式呈现，以至于我们仿佛几乎亲眼目睹。我们为每一个这样的场景所打动，就像它正在此时此地发生一般。我们看见正在发生的事情，听见所说的话，并感受到每一种反应与回应。那么，本章末尾的这一场景呈现的是什么呢？

The sūrah presents this truth in a vivid scene taken from the Day of Judgement in the same way as the Qur’ān presents various scenes of that great day. In all such presentations, the picture is portrayed in such an inspiring, vivid and effective way that we almost see it before our very eyes. We are moved by each such scene as though it were taking place here and now. We see what is taking place, hear what is being said and feel every reaction and response. So, what does this scene at the end of this sūrah present?

在那一天，真主将聚集所有的使者，并问他们："你们接到了怎样的回应？"他们将回答："我们毫无所知。唯有你，才完全知晓一切隐秘之事。"（第109节）

On the day when God will gather all [His] messengers and ask them, “What response did you receive?” they will answer, “We have no knowledge. Indeed, it is You alone who has full knowledge of all that lies beyond the reach of human perception. (Verse 109)

那些使者在不同的时代被派遣到各自的民众中间，每人前往自己的城市或乡村，他们属于不同的种族和民族，都向各自的族群传讲同一个信息。随后，最后一位使者穆罕默德ﷺ，被赐予一个面向所有时代、所有种族之人的单一信息。这些使者由派遣他们的那一位加以召集，他们聚集到一起时，带来了各自所得到的不同回应。如今在这一场景中，这些使者代表着人类在大地上的整个生存历程，他们在一个令人敬畏的日子里聚集起来，站在万民之主——神面前。

Those messengers were sent at different times to their respective people, each going his own way to his city or village, and belonging to different races and nations, all preaching the same message to their communities. Then, the last of them, Muĥammad, is given a single message addressed to all people of all races in all generations. Those messengers are gathered together by the One who sent them individually, and as they come together they bring with them the different responses they received. Now, in this scene, those messengers, representing humanity throughout its life span on earth, come together and stand before God, the Lord of all mankind on an awesome day.

场面充满生机:“那日，真主将召集众使者，并问他们：‘你们受到了怎样的回应？’”（第109节）今天，一切都被聚集在一起，使者们为自己所传达的讯息交代，结果当着全人类宣布。

The scene is full of life: “On the day when God will gather all [His] messengers and ask them: `What response did you receive?” (Verse 109) Today, everything is brought together, and messengers account for their messages. The results are declared before all humanity.

“你们得到了怎样的回应？”使者也是人。他们只知道自己凭感官所见所感，对于感官之外的事情却一无所知。他们曾号召自己的民众遵循神圣的指引。有人积极回应，也有人转身离去。使者并不知道积极回应者的全部真相，尽管他或许知道那转身离去者的真相。

“What response did you receive?” Messengers are human. They know what they see and feel with their senses, but they have no knowledge of what lies beyond. They had called on their peoples to follow Divine guidance. Some responded positively while others turned away. A messenger does not know the full truth about a person responding positively, even though he may know the truth of the one turning away.

他只能凭表象来判断;只有真主才知晓全部真相以及隐藏之事。那些使者如今都在真主面前,在所有人类之中,他们最认识真主,最敬畏真主,并且在真主面前,因谦卑而不愿凭着自己有限的知识妄加置喙,因为真主是全知的。

He can only tell by appearances; it is God who knows the full truth and what is concealed. Those messengers are now in the presence of God and, among all human beings, they know God best, fear Him most and are too modest to speak out, in His presence, on the basis of their limited knowledge when He knows all.

这是一场可怕的审问。在那一天，所有受造之物都被集合起来，至高的集会在场，全人类都在注视。这是一场对质，全人类将与众使者面对面，尤其是那些不信道者，他们如今排列在曾经被他们欺骗的那些使者面前。

本章经文是对耶稣(麦尔彦之子)的训谕,其内容针对那些赋予他神性、崇拜他、并围绕他和他的母亲编造种种夸大故事的人。这段训谕提醒他真主赐予他和他母亲的恩典,并列举真主赐给他的种种神迹,以帮助人们信从他的使命。然而,有些人最为激烈地否认他的使命,另一些人则被他所获得的神迹所迷惑。他们因这些神迹而将他抬升为神,而一切神迹都是真主所赐的,真主创造了他,赐予他使命,并支持他。

The account given in this sūrah addresses Jesus, son of Mary, in front of all those who attributed to him Divine status, worshipped him and weaved around him and his mother all sorts of exaggerated stories. The address reminds him of the grace God bestowed on him and on his mother, enumerating the miracles God gave him to help people to believe in his message. Yet some people denied his message most violently, while others were dazzled with the miracles he was given. On account of such miracles they elevated him to the status of a deity, when all miracles are given by God, who created him, gave him a message and supported him.

真主将说:"麦尔彦之子尔撒啊!你应当记念我赐予你和你母亲的恩典:我以圣灵扶助你,使你在摇篮里和成年时都能对人说话;我教你经典、智慧、讨拉特和引支勒;你以我的许可,用泥土塑造鸟的形状,向它吹气,它就以我的许可变成活鸟;你以我的许可,医好了盲人和麻风病人,并以我的许可使死人复活;当你带着明证来到以色列的后裔中间时,我阻止了他们加害你;那些不信的人说:'这显然是魔术。'我启示门徒们信仰我和我的使者,他们说:'我们信仰,你作证我们是顺从(真主)的。'"(第110-111节)

God will say: ‘Jesus, son of Mary! Remember the blessings which I bestowed on you and your mother: how I strengthened you with the Holy Spirit, so that you could speak to people in your cradle, and as a grown man; how I instructed you in the Book and in wisdom, in the Torah and in the Gospel; how, by My leave, you fashioned from clay the figure of a bird and breathed into it so that, by My leave, it became a living bird; how, by My leave, you healed the blind man and the leper, and, by My leave, restored the dead to life; how I prevented the Children of Israel from harming you when you came to them with all evidence of the truth: when those of them who disbelieved declared: ‘This is plain sorcery.’ And when I inspired the disciples to have faith in Me and in My Messenger; they said: ‘We believe; and bear you witness that we have surrendered ourselves [to God].” (Verses 110-111)

这里完整叙述了真主赐予尔萨和他母亲麦尔彦的种种恩典。首先，他在婴儿时期便得到圣灵的扶助。其次，他在通常孩童尚不会说话的时候就已开口与人交谈，洗清了其母因他那史无前例的奇异诞生而遭受的一切猜疑。后来他成年时，再次得到圣灵吉卜利勒的扶助，并与人交谈。他还被赐予经典的知识和智慧。他出生时并不懂读写，但真主赐予他这些知识，又赐予他智慧，使他能以最好的方式应对各种情况。真主还教他以色列后裔所接受的讨拉特，以及真主赐给他用来印证讨拉特的引支勒。

Here we have a full account of the various aspects of grace bestowed by God on Jesus and his mother, Mary. To start with, he was supported by the Holy Spirit in his infancy. Then, he was talking to people long before children normally start to talk, absolving his mother of all suspicion raised around her on account of his miraculous birth that had no parallel in history. He also talked to them later when as a grown man he was again supported by the Holy Spirit, Gabriel. He was also given knowledge of the Book and wisdom. He was born without knowledge of reading and writing, but God gave him that knowledge, as He imparted to him wisdom in order to deal with different situations in the best way. God also taught him the Torah which had been given to the Children of Israel and the Gospel which God gave him to confirm the Torah.

除了赐予耶稣及其母亲的恩典之外，该章还叙述了真主赐予他的信徒们的一些恩惠，以及真主以之支持他的种种神迹，这些都是他的门徒所亲眼见证的。

In addition to the favours bestowed on Jesus and his mother, the sūrah relates some of the favours God granted to his followers, and the miracles with which God supported him, as seen by his disciples.

门徒说:"麦尔彦之子尔撒啊!你的主能否从天上为我们降下一桌食物吗?"他说:"如果你们是信士,那就敬畏真主吧。"他们说:"我们想吃这食物,以安定我们的心,并知道你确实对我们说了实话,并且我们要为此作证。"麦尔彦之子尔撒说:"我们的主啊!求你从天上为我们降下一桌食物,它将成为我们——我们的先人和后人——的节日,并成为你的一个迹象。求你赐给我们给养,你是最优的给养者。"真主说:"我必定为你们降下它。"

The disciples said: “Jesus, son of Mary! Can your Lord send down to us a repast from heaven?” He answered: “Fear God, if you are truly believers.” Said they: “We desire to eat of it, so that our hearts are reassured and that we know that you have spoken the truth to us, and that we may be witness of it.” “God, our Lord,” said Jesus, son of Mary, “send down upon us a repast from heaven: it shall be an ever- recurring feast for us — for the first and the last of us — and a sign from You. And provide us our sustenance, for You are the best provider” God replied: ‘I am sending it down to you.

“但你们中若有人在此之后不信，我必将施以他那样的惩罚，那是我从未施于世上任何人的。”（第112-115节）

But whoever of you disbelieves after this, I shall inflict on him suffering the like of which I have not inflicted on anyone in the world.” (Verses 112-115)

这段对话让我们看到耶稣的门徒们的情况，尤其是其中的精英，即他的使徒。我们发现，他们与我们的先知穆罕默德ﷺ的同伴截然不同。那些同伴是受真主启示而信仰真主和他的使者、玛利亚之子耶稣的门徒。他们信仰之后，便请求耶稣为他们的信仰作证。然而，即使在目睹耶稣所行的种种神迹之后，他们仍然请求另一个神迹，以使自己确信他的真实性，并向后来的人作证。

This dialogue reveals to us something about Jesus’s people, and the elite among them, i.e. his disciples. What we find is that they differed greatly from our own Prophet’s Companions. Those were the disciples inspired by God to believe in Him and His Messenger, Jesus, son of Mary. They did so and called on Jesus to witness the fact of their faith. Yet even after all the miracles they saw Jesus performing, they still requested another miracle so as to reassure themselves about his truthfulness and to bear witness about it to those who would succeed them.

穆罕默德的同伴们则不同，他们在接受信仰、顺服真主之后，从未再向他请求任何一个神迹。他们一旦体验到信仰的幸福与喜悦，内心便充满了信念。他们信奉真主的使者ﷺ，不再要求任何更多的证据来证明他所传信息的真实性。他们为他的诚实作证，除了《古兰经》之外，并没有向他们展示任何其他神迹。

Muĥammad’s Companions, on the other hand, never asked him for a single miracle after they had accepted the faith and submitted themselves to God. Their hearts were full of faith, once they had experienced the happiness and joy of it. They believed God’s Messenger and asked him for no more proof of the truth of his message. They testified to his truthfulness with no miracle shown to them other than the Qur’ān.

话虽如此，耶稣警告他们不要请求神迹，因为信士不会请求神迹："他说：'如果你们是真正的信士，那就敬畏真主吧。'"（第112节）然而，耶稣的门徒仍然重复他们的请求，并说明了他们请求的理由，以及如果获得应允他们希望达到的目的："他们说：'我们想吃那桌食物，以安定我们的心，并使我们知道你确已对我们说了真话，我们也要做它的见证。'"（第113节）

Be that as it may, Jesus warned them against asking for miracles, because believers do not ask for them: “He answered: ‘Fear God, if you are truly believers.’“ (Verse 112) But Jesus’s disciples repeated their request stating their reasons for requesting it and what they hoped to achieve, should it be granted. “Said they: ‘We desire to eat of it, so that our hearts are reassured and that we know that you have spoken the truth to us, and that we may be witness of it.’” (Verse 113)

他们所想要的，是吃到一种世上任何人都从未尝过的食物。他们亲眼目睹这一神迹发生，内心便会得到安慰。那时他们就会知道，耶稣所告诉他们的确实是真理。这将使他们成为此神迹真实性的见证人，使他们的族人无人能够否认它。所有这些理由都证明，那些门徒的水平远低于穆罕默德的同伴，后者是完全不同的品格与气质。

What they wanted was that they should eat of such food which no human being on earth could ever taste. They would have heart-felt reassurance as they would see the miracle being enacted in front of their eyes. They would know then that Jesus had told them only the truth. This would make of them witnesses to the truth of this miracle so that none of their people could ever deny it. All these reasons confirm that the level of those disciples was well below that of Muĥammad’s Companions, who were of a totally different mould.

此时，耶稣向他的主祈祷说："我们的主啊，求你从天上降下一桌食物给我们，这将成为我们的节日，给我们中的先前者和后来者；它也将是你的一个迹象。求你供给我们，你是最好的供给者。"（第114节）

At this point Jesus addressed his appeal to his Lord: “God, our Lord,” said Jesus, son of Mary, “send down upon us a repast from heaven: it shall be an ever-recurring feast for us — for the first and the last of us — and a sign from You. And provide us our sustenance, for You are the best provider.” (Verse 114)

我们注意到，在耶稣的祷告中，他以仆人的谦卑向主祷告，而他的主曾经尊荣他。他首先明确表示自己认识主，说："天主，我们的主啊！"接着他陈述自己的请求，恳求主赐给他们一桌食物，使他们喜乐、得享福泽，成为他们每一个人的节日。他承认这一切都由天主供给，天主是最好的供给者。由此可见，耶稣认识到自己作为天主仆人的身份，也认识到天主作为众世界之主的地位。这一切都在全人类面前显现出来，尤其是在那重大而不平凡的日子里，他的子民都在场见证。

We note in Jesus’s supplication how he makes his address with all the humility of a servant whose Lord has honoured him. He first makes it clear that he recognises Him, saying, “God, our Lord!” Then he states his appeal, requesting Him to give them a repast that would bring them joy and goodness, so as to be like a festival for everyone of them. He acknowledges that it would all be provided by God, the best of all providers. Jesus is thus shown to recognise his own status as a servant of God and to recognise God’s status as Lord of all the worlds. This is shown in front of all mankind, particularly his people on that great and eventful day.

上主应允了祂善良的仆人、玛利亚之子耶稣的祷告，但给予的是与祂的威严相称的庄重回应。他们请求一个神迹，祂将赐予他们所请求的神迹，条件是：若有人在神迹显现之后仍然不信，祂必严厉惩罚他。诚然，这样的惩罚在严厉程度上将超过祂加诸于其他任何仆人的任何惩罚。

该章并未在警告之后接着叙述那场筵席的故事，而是转而讨论贯穿整段经文的核心问题：神性与主宰权。我们现在回到那幕伟大的场景，它至今仍被作为给所有旁观者的鉴戒。我们now听到一个直截了当的质问，关于人们赋予耶稣及其母亲的神性。被质问的人正是耶稣，他面对那些崇拜他的人。他们听着他惊讶而诧异地在其主面前否认，自己对人们加在他身上的这桩重大罪过毫不知情。他确实是清白的，而这一切都是捏造。

The sūrah does not follow the account of the Repast after stating God’s warning. It moves on to deal with the central issue of Godhead and Lordship, which permeates the whole passage. We go back now to that great scene which continues to be held up for all onlookers. We listen now to a straightforward questioning about the Divinity claimed for Jesus and his mother. The person now interrogated is none other than Jesus, facing those who worshipped him. They listen to him as he, surprised and amazed, disclaims before his Lord all knowledge of such a grievous sin they attach to him. He is, indeed, innocent and it is all fabrication:

安拉会说:麦尔彦之子尔撒啊!你是否曾对世人说:"你们舍安拉而以我和我的母亲为两个神灵吧!"他将说:"赞颂你超绝万物!我无权说我所不应该说的话。如果我曾说过,你必已知道。你知道我内心的一切,而我不知道你内心的奥秘。你确是全知幽玄的。我只向他们转达了你命令我转达的:'你们应当崇拜安拉,他是我的主,也是你们的主。'只要我还在他们中间,我便是他们言行的见证人;你使我归真之后,你便是他们的监察者。你是万物的见证者。如果你惩罚他们,他们确是你的仆人;如果你赦宥他们,你确是万能的,确是至睿的。"(5:116-118)

And God will say: Jesus, son of Mary! Did you say to people, ‘Worship me and my mother as deities beside God?” [Jesus] answered: “Limitless are You in Your glory! I could never have claimed what I have no right to [say]! Had I said this, You would certainly have known it. You know all that is within myself whereas I do not know what is in Yourself. Most certainly, it is You alone who fully knows all that lies beyond the reach of human perception. Nothing did I tell them beyond what You bade me [to say]: `Worship God, who is my Lord and your Lord.’ I was witness to what they did as long as I lived in their midst. Then when You took me to Yourself, You have been watching over them. You are indeed a witness to all things. If You punish them, they are Your servants; and if You forgive them, You are indeed Almighty, Wise.” (Verses 116-118)

无限尊崇的真主，荣耀无比！祂很清楚耶稣对人们说过什么。然而，在那可怖的审判日，这番令人忧惧的质问，其针对的对象并非它所直接指向的那个人。以这种形式呈现，更加深了我们对那些将神性归于耶稣的人的厌恶。耶稣是真主高贵而伟大的仆人。真主的任何一位仆人，明知自己不过是真主的仆人，却宣称自己是真主，这确实是一桩可憎的罪行，任何正常的人都不会犯下。那么，难道真主的使者中，那些被赐予最坚定意志的人，会犯下这样的罪行吗？又或者，这罪行竟可能出自马利亚之子耶稣？真主在选他承载祂的使命之前与之后，都赐予了他种种恩典，这怎么可能呢？当他被质问关于这一神性的主张时，他会有何感受？他明明是真主的一位良善仆人。

Limitless is God in His glory! He knows very well what Jesus said to people. But this worrying interrogation on that fearful day is intended for people other than the one to whom it is addressed. Putting it in this form adds to our abhorrence of the attitude of those who attributed Divinity to Jesus, God’s noble and great servant. For anyone of God’s servants to claim to be God, knowing that he is no more than a servant of God, is indeed a horrible offence that no normal human being could perpetrate. Is it conceivable, then, that one of God’s messengers who were granted the strongest resolve should perpetrate it? Or is it even conceivable that this perpetrator should be Jesus son of Mary, when God gave him all those favours before and after he was chosen to bear His message? How does he feel when questioned about this claim of Godhead, when he is a good servant of God?

在本段结尾处,与历来任何使者的追随者所捏造的最大谎言形成对照——即关于基督神性的谎言,而基督本人斥责此说,并将判断全权交予真主——经文作出了一个真理的宣告。它为这一章作结,宣告天地及其间的一切主权皆属于真主,即全能掌控万物的宇宙主宰。没有任何事物能限制祂的权能:“天地之间的一切主权,都属于真主。”

At the end of this passage and in contrast to the greatest falsehood ever perpetrated by the followers of any messenger, i.e. the falsehood of Christ’s Divine nature, which he himself denounces and leaves all decision about which to God alone, a statement of truth is made. It provides the final note in the sūrah, declaring that dominion over the heavens and the earth and all that they contain belongs to God, the Lord of the universe who has full control over all things. Nothing limits His power: “To God belongs all sovereignty over the heavens and the earth and all they contain.

“他对万事都有权能。”（第120节）

He has the power over all things.” (Verse 120)

这是最终的结语，与那个重大问题相称，正是围绕这一问题编织起了那种可怕的谬论。这一结语契合那庄严的场景：真主是全知、拥有神性且全能的主。所有使者都只向他求助，将一切事务托付于他。事实上，麦尔彦之子尔撒在他自己和他的people的事务上，也将审判交由他来裁决。他是至能的、至睿的，是诸天、大地及其间一切之主宰。对于这一章而言，这是一个恰当的结尾，该章讨论的是宗教的真义，表明宗教即是唯独履行真主的律法，唯独从他那里接受引导，唯独依据他的启示进行裁决。既然他是主宰，那么审判便属于他，因为最终的裁决归于拥有主权者：“凡不按真主所降示的来判决的，他们就是不信道者。”（第44节）

This is the finale that suits the great question around which that terrible fallacy has been woven. It is an ending that fits that majestic scene where God is seen to be the One who has all knowledge, Godhead and all power. To Him alone all messengers turn, putting all matters in His hands. Indeed, to Him Jesus son of Mary assigns judgement in his own and his people’s affair. He is Almighty, Wise, the Sovereign over the heavens, the earth and all they contain. It is a fitting conclusion to the sūrah which discusses the meaning of religion, showing it to be the implementation of only God’s law, receiving guidance from Him alone and judging only on the basis of His revelations. Since He is the Sovereign, He is the One to judge, for final judgement belongs to whomever has sovereignty: “Those who do not judge according to what God has revealed are indeed unbelievers.” (Verse 44)

这是同一个问题：神性、真主的独一性，以及依据祂的启示作出裁决。

It is all one and the same issue: Godhead, the Oneness of God, and judgement on the basis of His guidance.