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﴿وَيَجْعَلُونَ لِلَّهِ الْبَنَاتِ سُبْحَانَهُ وَلَهُمْ مَا يَشْتَهُونَ﴾
They attribute daughters to Allah—glory be to Him—while assigning to themselves what they desire. (al-Naḥl 16:57)

The expression subḥānahu declares divine transcendence and rejects the false attribution. The surrounding discourse then resumes its contrast between what they assign to Allah and what they prefer for themselves. The inserted glorification strengthens the condemnation without becoming an ordinary syntactic part of that contrast.

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Qur’anic example: a parenthesis of transcendence

Iʿtirāḍ and the Relative Measure of Ījāz and Iṭnāb — Concluding Volume 1

﴿وَيَجْعَلُونَ لِلَّهِ الْبَنَاتِ سُبْحَانَهُ وَلَهُمْ مَا يَشْتَهُونَ﴾
They attribute daughters to Allah—glory be to Him—while assigning to themselves what they desire. (al-Naḥl 16:57)

The expression subḥānahu declares divine transcendence and rejects the false attribution. The surrounding discourse then resumes its contrast between what they assign to Allah and what they prefer for themselves. The inserted glorification strengthens the condemnation without becoming an ordinary syntactic part of that contrast.