Az-Zukhruf (Ornaments of gold)

15. [Polytheists said: “Angels are daughters of God”] and they assigned to some of His servants a share with Him. Indeed man is a manifest ingrate.

16. Or has He taken daughters out of what He has created and He has selected for you sons?

It would be unbefitting to regard daughters a disgrace and imagine that that God Almighty has daughters. The blessed verse in question alludes to disbelievers’ ignorance that they assign to some of His servants a share with Him, such that angels who are His creatures are termed as God’s daughters. This inappropriate attribution is a manifest token of disbelief.

The other point is that:

“or has He taken”

as a rhetorical question with hamza of denial in Arabic is a reproach to them to the effect that disbelievers regard weak creatures as God’s offspring.

The blessed Verse inquires disbelievers:

“Would it be fitting that God Almighty select daughters for Himself from among His Creatures and select sons for you?”

Such attributions reveal their ignorance and inanity since daughters and sons are accorded shares with their parents but the Necessary Being is the Originator of the world.

He is One, Glorified, and Free from corporeality as it is mentioned in the Holy Qur’an:

“He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none co-equal or comparable unto Him”1 .

As a consequence, the blessed Verse 15 closes with saying that indeed man is a manifest ingrate.