Surah 37. As-Saffat, Ayah 149

This reference to people who ascribe divinity to beings other than God connects with verse 4 ("verily, most surely, your God is One") as well as with verses {69-70} ("behold, they found their forebears on a wrong way, and [now] they make haste to follow in their footsteps").

For an explanation of this passage, see {16:57-59} and the corresponding notes.

 Some pagan Arabs believed that the angels were Allah’s daughters. Some of them were ashamed to have daughters and took pride in their own sons.

We begin a new argument here. The Pagan Arabs called angels daughters of Allah. They themselves were ashamed of having daughters, and preferred to have sons, to add to their power and dignity. See xvi. 57-59, and n. 2082. Yet they invented daughters for Allah!