Verse. 926

٦ - ٱلْأَنْعَام

6 - Al-An'am

وَكَذٰلِكَ زَيَّنَ لِكَثِيْرٍ مِّنَ الْمُشْرِكِيْنَ قَتْلَ اَوْلَادِہِمْ شُرَكَاۗؤُہُمْ لِيُرْدُوْہُمْ وَلِيَلْبِسُوْا عَلَيْہِمْ دِيْنَہُمْ۝۰ۭ وَلَوْ شَاۗءَ اللہُ مَا فَعَلُوْہُ فَذَرْہُمْ وَمَا يَفْتَرُوْنَ۝۱۳۷
Wakathalika zayyana likatheerin mina almushrikeena qatla awladihim shurakaohum liyurdoohum waliyalbisoo AAalayhim deenahum walaw shaa Allahu ma faAAaloohu fatharhum wama yaftaroona

English

Ahmed Ali

In the same way have their companions shown many unbelievers the killing of their children as desirable in order to ruin them and falsify their faith. If God had so willed they would never have done so. Leave them to their falsehoods.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (thus) just as we have made their words and works seem fair to them (have their (so called) partners) among the devil (made the killing of their children) their daughters (to seem fair unto many of the idolaters, that they may ruin them) destroy them (and make their faith) the religion of abraham and ishmael (obscure for them. had allah willed (it otherwise), they had not done so) i.e. killing their daughters and making it seem fair to them. (so leave them alone with their devices) with their lies when they claim that allah commanded them to bury their daughters alive.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : and thus, in the same way that what is mentioned was adorned for them, those associates of theirs, from among the jinn, have adorned for many of the idolaters the slaying of their children, by burying them alive (shurakā’uhum, ‘those associates of theirs’, is read in the nominative as the subject of the verb zayyana, ‘adorned’; an alternative reading has the passive [zuyyina, ‘it has been adorned’], with qatlu, ‘the slaying’, in the nominative [as the subject of this passive verb], awlādahum, ‘their children’, in the accusative on account of it [being the direct object of qatlu, ‘the slaying’], and shurakā’ihim in the genitive as an annexation to qatlu, so that the object in this case intervenes between the two elements of the annexation [qatlu awlādahum shurakā’ihim, ‘their associates killing the children’] — this is acceptable [syntactically] — and the annexation of qatlu to shurakā’ihim [in this latter reading] is on account of them [the associates] commanding [the idolaters to do] this), that they may destroy them and to confuse, to make obscure, their religion for them. had god willed, they would not have done so; so leave them and that which they fabricate.