57 Preface وَيَجعَلونَ لِلَّهِ البَناتِ سُبحانَهُ ۙ وَلَهُم ما يَشتَهونَYusuf AliAnd they assign daughters1 for God. - Glory be to Him! - and for themselves (sons,- the issue) they desire! Some of the Pagan Arabs called angels ’the daughters of God'. In their own life they hated to have daughters, as explained in the next two verses. They practised female infanticide. In their state of perpetual war, sons were a source of strength to them; daughters only made them subject to humiliating raids!