LessonsQur’anic Argumentation: Polytheistic Beliefs and Their RefutationQuiz

One Qur’anic response to tashbih exposes an inconsistency in attributing human family relations to God. A group that preferred sons for itself nevertheless assigned daughters to God, revealing a contradiction by its own cultural assumptions.

أَلِرَبِّكَ الْبَنَاتُ وَلَهُمُ الْبَنُونَ
Are daughters for your Lord and sons for them? (Qur’an 37:149).

The argument is an internal critique of the audience’s unjust division; it does not establish that daughters have lesser worth. The deeper point is the invalidity of treating the Creator as though subject to human procreation.

Using an opponent’s premise to expose internal inconsistency does not endorse that premise as true; it is an internal critique.

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Refuting tashbih through an internal inconsistency

Qur’anic Argumentation: Polytheistic Beliefs and Their Refutation

One Qur’anic response to tashbih exposes an inconsistency in attributing human family relations to God. A group that preferred sons for itself nevertheless assigned daughters to God, revealing a contradiction by its own cultural assumptions.

أَلِرَبِّكَ الْبَنَاتُ وَلَهُمُ الْبَنُونَ
Are daughters for your Lord and sons for them? (Qur’an 37:149).

The argument is an internal critique of the audience’s unjust division; it does not establish that daughters have lesser worth. The deeper point is the invalidity of treating the Creator as though subject to human procreation.

Using an opponent’s premise to expose internal inconsistency does not endorse that premise as true; it is an internal critique.