The Jews say, “Ezra is the son of Allah,” while the Christians say, “The Messiah is the son of Allah.” Such are their baseless assertions, only parroting the words of earlier disbelievers. May Allah condemn them! How can they be deluded ˹from the truth˺?
Explanation
The two readings convey the same meaning in slightly different ways, though it is also possible for the second to be simply a lightened form of the first [Makki].