So, they believed, then, We let them enjoy for a time.

So ask them, “Does your Lord have daughters while they have sons?”

Or, had We created angels as females while they were witnessing?

Beware! They are the ones who, by way of a lie of theirs, (have the audacity to) say,

“Allah has children” - and they are absolute liars.

Is it that Allah has chosen daughters (for Himself) instead of sons?

What is the matter with you? How (arbitrarily) do you judge?

none of you can make anyone turn away from Him (Allah),

except him who is to burn in Jahannam.

And (the angels say,) “There is no one among us who does not have a known station,

and We, surely We, are those who stand in rows

and We, surely We, are those who proclaim Allah’s purity.”

And they (the pagans) used to say,

“Had there been a scripture with us like that of the former people,