17وَإِذا بُشِّرَ أَحَدُهُم بِما ضَرَبَ لِلرَّحمٰنِ مَثَلًا ظَلَّ وَجهُهُ مُسوَدًّا وَهُوَ كَظيمٌMuhammad AsadFor [thus it is:] if any of them is given the glad tiding of [the birth of] what he so readily attributes to the Most Gracious,1 his face darkens, and he is filled with suppressed anger:Lit., "what he postulates as a likeness of [or "as likely for"] the Most Gracious": i.e., female offspring, which implies a natural "likeness" to its progenitor.