﴿ أَصْطَفَى ٱلْبَنَاتِ عَلَى ٱلْبَنِينَ ﴾

““He has chosen daughters in preference to sons”!”

Has He preferred daughters to sons? read a’stafā ‘has He preferred’ indicating an interrogative hamza which stands in place of the omitted conjunctive hamza.