40 Preface أَفَأَصفاكُم رَبُّكُم بِالبَنينَ وَاتَّخَذَ مِنَ المَلائِكَةِ إِناثًا ۚ إِنَّكُم لَتَقولونَ قَولًا عَظيمًاYusuf AliHas then your Lord (O Pagans!) preferred for you sons, and taken for Himself daughters among the angels?1 Truly ye utter a most dreadful saying!Cf. 16:57-59. Insistence on true worship means also exclusion of false worship or worship derogatory to God. In circles where daughters were despised and even their lives had to be protected by special legislation, what could have been more dreadful than ascribing daughters to God?