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Tafheem-ul-Quran - Abul Ala Maududi translation for Surah As-Saffat — Ayah 149

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37:149

فَٱسۡتَفۡتِهِمۡ أَلِرَبِّكَ ٱلۡبَنَاتُ وَلَهُمُ ٱلۡبَنُونَ ١٤٩

So ask their opinion:¹ “(Are you convinced) that your Lord should have daughters and you should have sons?²

Footnotes

[1] Traditions show that in Arabia the tribes of Quraish, Juhainah, Bani Salimah, Khuzaah, Bani Mulaih, etc. held the belief that the angels were Allah’s daughters. This belief of their ignorance has been referred to at several places in the Quran, e.g. in(Surah An-Nisa, Ayat 117); (Surah An- Nahl, Aytas 57-58); (Surah Bani-Israil, Ayat 40);(Surah Az- Zukhruf, Ayats 16, 19); (Surah An-Najm, Ayats 21-27).
[2] The Arabic word used is Muslimeenwhich means those who willingly submit to God, regardless of which prophet they followed.
[3] A grammatical shift from 3^rdperson to 1^stperson.
[4] Another theme starts from here. In the preceding theme that started from verse 11, the Quraish had been put this question: Ask them: what is more difficult: their own creation or of those things that We have created? Now, they are being asked this second question. The object of the first question was to warn the disbelievers of their deviation because of which they regarded life-after-death and the meting out of rewards and punishments as impossible, and therefore, mocked the Prophet (peace be upon him) for it. Now they are being asked this second question to warn them of their ignorance due to which they attributed children to Allah and would join anybody with Allah in any relationship they liked on mere conjecture.

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