Text of verse 37:153
أَصْطَفَى ٱلْبَنَاتِ عَلَى ٱلْبَنِينَ ١٥٣
Transliteration
aṣṭafā l-banāti ʿalā l-banīna
Translation
Has He chosen daughters over sons?
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Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah As-Saffat, Verse 153
سورة الصافات، الآية ١٥٣
Verse 153 of Surah As-Saffat (37:153), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 451 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
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Tafsir of verse 153
Al-Mukhtasar
Would Allah prefer daughters for Himself which you dislike, over sons which you like? Never!
Other translations of verse 153
Did He choose daughters over sons36?
Notes
[36] i.e., daughters that you hate over sons that you like?
Has He (then) chosen daughters rather than sons?
(And again of their falsehood): He hath preferred daughters to sons.
Did He (then) choose daughters rather than sons?
Has He chosen daughters in preference to sons?
Has he elected daughters above sons?
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Al-Isra 17:40
أَفَأَصْفَىٰكُمْ رَبُّكُم بِٱلْبَنِينَ وَٱتَّخَذَ مِنَ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ إِنَٰثًا إِنَّكُمْ لَتَقُولُونَ قَوْلًا عَظِيمًا
Then, has your Lord chosen you for [having] sons and taken [i.e., adopted] from among the angels daughters? Indeed, you say a grave saying.