Chapter XLIII.
Sūratu ʾz-Zuk͟hruf.
The Chapter of Gilding.
The original of the Qurʾān is with God.
The example of the nations of old who mocked at the prophets.
God the Creator.
Men are bidden to praise Him who provides man with ships and cattle whereon to ride.
The Arabs are rebuked for attributing female offspring to God, when they themselves repine when a female child is born to any one of them.
They are also blamed for asserting that the angels are female.
The excuse that this was the religion of their fathers, will not avail.