The Cattle
6. Al-'Anʿām
الأنعام

Al An‘ām (The Cattle)

ٱلْأَنْعَام

6:137
6:137

wa-ka-dhālika zayyana li-kathīrin mina l-mushrikīna qatla ʾawlādihim shurakāʾuhum li-yurdūhum wa-li-yalbisū ʿalayhim dīnahum wa-law shāʾa llāhu faʿalūhu fa-dharhum wa-mā yaftarūna

That is how to most of the polytheists the slaying of their children is presented as decorous by those whom they ascribe as partners [to Allah], that they may ruin them and confound their religion for them. Had Allah wished, they would not have done it. So leave them with what they fabricate.

Ali Quli Qarai