أَمِ اتَّخَذَ مِمَّا يَخْلُقُ بَنَاتٍ وَأَصْفَاكُم بِالْبَنِينَ
Did He adopt daughters from what He creates while He preferred you with sons?
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 43:16
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 43:16] See commentary of Nahl: 57 to 62. To ascribe daughters to Allah was particularly abominable and blasphemous because the pagans used to hold the female sex in contempt.