Az-Zukhruf 43:16 ام اتخذ مما يخلق بنات واصفاكم بالبنين ١٦
أَمِ
ٱتَّخَذَ
مِمَّا
يَخۡلُقُ
بَنَاتٖ
وَأَصۡفَىٰكُم
بِٱلۡبَنِينَ
١٦
Has He taken ˹angels as His˺ daughters from what He created, and favoured you ˹O pagans˺ with sons?
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Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Condemnation of the Idolators' attribution of Offspring to Allah
Here Allah speaks of the lies and fabrications of the idolators, when they devoted some of their cattle to their false gods and some to Allah, as He described in Surat Al-An`am where He said:
وَجَعَلُواْ لِلَّهِ مِمَّا ذَرَأَ مِنَ الْحَر
…Condemnation of the Idolators' attribution of Offspring to Allah
Here Allah speaks of the lies and fabrications of the idolators, when they devoted som
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