Surah 17 Al-Israa — Ayah 40
أَفَأَصْفَىٰكُمْ رَبُّكُم بِٱلْبَنِينَ وَٱتَّخَذَ مِنَ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ إِنَٰثًا ۚ إِنَّكُمْ لَتَقُولُونَ قَوْلًا عَظِيمًۭا
(اي مشرڪؤ) اوھان جي پالڻھار اوھان کي پُٽن جي لاءِ چونڊيو ۽ (پاڻ) ملائڪن کي (پنھنجيون) ڌيئر ڪري ورتائين ڇا؟ بيشڪ اوھين ھيءَ وڏي ڳالھ ڪندا آھيو.
afa-aṣfākum rabbukum bil-banīna wa-ittakhadha mina l-malāikati ināthan innakum lataqūlūna qawlan ʿaẓīman
Word by word
- أَفَأَصْفَىٰكُمْ afa-aṣfākum Then has your Lord chosen (for) you
- رَبُّكُم rabbukum Then has your Lord chosen (for) you
- بِٱلْبَنِينَ bil-banīna sons
- وَٱتَّخَذَ wa-ittakhadha and He has taken
- مِنَ mina from
- ٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةِ l-malāikati the Angels
- إِنَـٰثًا ۚ ināthan daughters
- إِنَّكُمْ innakum Indeed, you
- لَتَقُولُونَ lataqūlūna surely say
- قَوْلًا qawlan a word
- عَظِيمًۭا ʿaẓīman grave
Tafsir · Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Refutation of Those Who claim that the Angels are Daughters of Allah
Allah refutes the lying idolators who claim, may the curse of Allah be upon them, that the angels are the daughters of Allah. They made the angels, who are the servants of Ar-Rahman (the Most Beneficent), females, and called them daughters of Allah, then they worshipped them. They were gravely wrong on all three counts. Allah says, denouncing them:
(Has then your Lord preferred for you sons,) meaning, has He given only you sons
(and taken for Himself from among the angels daughters) meaning, has He chosen for Himself, as you claim, daughters Then Allah denounces them even more severely, and says:
(Verily, you indeed utter an awful saying.) meaning, in your claim that Allah has children, then you say that His children are female, which you do not like for yourselves and may even kill them by burying them alive. That is indeed a division most unfair! Allah says:
(And they say: "The Most Beneficent (Allah) has begotten a child." Indeed you have brought forth (said) a terrible evil thing. Whereby the heavens are almost torn, and the earth split asunder, and the mountains fall in ruins. That they ascribe a son child to the Most Beneficent. But it is not suitable for (the majesty of) the Most Beneficent that he should beget a child. There is none in the heavens and the earth but comes unto the Most Beneficent as a servant. Verily, He knows each one of them, and has counted them a full counting. And every one of them will come to Him alone on the Day of Resurrection.) (19:88-95)