another verse:

“Yet they have made some of His servants a part of Him. Indeed, man is manifestly ungrateful. Or has He taken daughters from among His creation and favoured you with sons? When one of them is given news of what he has set forth as a likeness for the Most Merciful, his face darkens and he suppresses his grief. Or do they attribute to Him one brought up amid ornaments, unable to make herself clear in argument? And they have made the angels, who are servants of the Most Merciful, females. Did they witness their creation? Their testimony will be recorded, and they will be questioned.”

Establishing the proof, Allah Most High addresses them with a question of repudiation, demonstrating the falsehood and impossibility of what He repudiates, and that recognition of this is firmly rooted in human nature:

“Or has He taken daughters from among His creation and favoured you with sons?”

For even if it were hypothetically supposed that He were to take offspring, would He take daughters from among His creation and reserve sons exclusively for you?! That is, would He leave sons entirely to you, without sharing with you in taking sons, so that you alone would have the better of the two sexes, while He, glorified be He, would have only the deficient sex?!

He then mentions something about them that demonstrates how profoundly deficient they consider daughters:

“When one of them is given news of what he has set forth as a likeness for the Most Merciful.”

This refers to females, as He mentions in Sūrat al-Nahl. That is, he is given news of what he has made a likeness for the Most Merciful: daughters, the like of whom he has attributed to the Most Merciful. Setting it forth as a likeness for the Most Merciful means making it a likeness for Him, since he used it to depict the angels whom they claimed were Allah’s daughters. He thus made them resemble the daughters whose like he attributed to the Most Merciful. Thus he set forth for the Most Merciful—that is,