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===Angels as daughters===

Another main theme addressed throughout this surah is the role of the angels as God's servants and not God's daughters. Verses 15-19 discuss the ungrateful disbelievers who consider the angels to be more than just servants of God. "The Meccan pagans considered the angels to be daughters of God, yet they were dismissive of their own daughters".<ref name=316MAS/> Verses 15-19 reject any familial ties between God and the angels.

The theme of the angels as Gods servants arises again in verses 57–60. Here, the surah once again rejects the pagans who worship the angels as daughters of God and see them as superior to Jesus, whom they believed to be the Christian's Son of God.<ref name="ReferenceA">Haleem, M.A.S. Abdel. The Qur'an (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005) 318.</ref> The angels are merely servants of God and the surah denounces the disbelievers who argue otherwise just to challenge believers.<ref>This has been taken up in a critical vein by Andreas Dorschel, ''Die Verstocktheit der Ungläubigen.'' In: ''Merkur'' 71 (2017), no. 2, pp. 85–92. [https://volltext.merkur-zeitschrift.de/preview/587de03d546f88c07b8b4590/mr_2017_02_0085-0092_0085_01/ Vorschau] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925220008/https://volltext.merkur-zeitschrift.de/preview/587de03d546f88c07b8b4590/mr_2017_02_0085-0092_0085_01/ |date=2018-09-25 }}</ref>