What is the ruling on saying: "He begets not, nor is He begotten"?
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The statement "He neither begets nor is begotten" is not permissible if the speaker intends it to be a verse from Surat Al- (Al-Samad), but rather it is a distortion of the Book of Allah Almighty, and it may lead its perpetrator to apostasy.
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