Tafsir of Az-Zukhruf 43:15

Condemnation of the Idolators' attribution of Offspring to Allah Here Allah speaks of the lies and fabrications of the idolators, when they devoted some of their cattle to their false gods and some to Allah, as He described in Surah Al-An`am where He said:

وجعلوا لله مما ذرأ من الحرث واﻻنعام نصيبا فقالوا هذا لله بزعمهم وهذا لشركاينا فما كان لشركايهم فﻼ يصل إلى الله وما كان لله فهو يصل إلى شركايهم ساء ما يحكمون

And they assign to Allah share of the tilth and cattle which He has created, and they say: "This is for Allah'' according to their claim," and this is for our partners.'' But the share of their partners reaches not Allah, while the share of Allah reaches their partners! Evil is the way they judge! (6:136). Similarly, out of the two kinds of offspring, sons and daughters, they assigned to Him the worst and least valuable (in their eyes), i.e., daughters, as Allah says:

ألكم الذكر وله اﻻنثى

تلك إذا قسمة ضيزى

Is it for you the males and for Him the females That indeed is a division most unfair! (53:21-22) And Allah says here:

وجعلوا له من عباده جزءا

إن اﻻنسان لكفور مبين

Yet, they assign to some of His servants a share with Him. Verily, man is indeed a manifest ingrate! Then He says:

أم اتخذ مما يخلق بنات وأصفاكم بالبنين