𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐓𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝? :

Some Muslims read the verse on the right and assume it’s responding to the verse on the left, but is this really true?

The NET translation renders the Hebrew term used in Genesis 2 as: ❝Ceased❞ instead of: ❝Rested❞ as it clarifies that the Hebrew doesn’t imply a state of exhaustion.

Isaiah 40:28 also explicitly says that God doesn’t get tired. The Jewish Study Bible interprets this as a possible direct clarification of Genesis 2:2-3. This seems to more closely echo what the Qur’ān was trying to do (I.e. clarification instead of refutation).

Ibn Taymiyyah quotes Ibn Qutaybah [d. 276 AH] and other scholars agreeing that Genesis 2:2-3 doesn’t mean that God got tired but rather that He had finished creating.

Some Muslims also think the verse on the right is a refutation of the verse on the left. However, that would be ignoring the context of Psalm 44.

The Psalms are clear elsewhere that God doesn’t actually sleep or get drowsy. Which is very similar to Āyat al-Kursī.