تِلْكَ إِذًا قِسْمَةٌ ضِيزَىٰٓ
Tilka izan qismatun deezaa
یہ تقسیم تو بہت بےانصافی کی ہے
That, then, would be an unjust division.
The argument works from inside the listeners' own values: people who counted daughters a lesser thing had assigned daughters to God, and the verse holds that arithmetic up to them before it says anything about the idols themselves. Ḍīzā is a rare word for something skewed or lopsided, and its odd shape in Arabic leaves the line sounding off-balance. The premise granted for the sake of argument is removed in the next verse.