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Scholarly commentary explaining a verse — its context, its meaning and how the scholars have understood it.

Al-An'am 6:140

Word by word

قَدْ خَسِرَ ٱلَّذِينَ قَتَلُوٓا۟ أَوْلَـٰدَهُمْ سَفَهًۢا بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ وَحَرَّمُوا۟ مَا رَزَقَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ ٱفْتِرَآءً عَلَى ٱللَّهِ ۚ قَدْ ضَلُّوا۟ وَمَا كَانُوا۟ مُهْتَدِينَ

They will have lost who killed their children in foolishness without knowledge and prohibited what Allāh had provided for them, inventing untruth about Allāh. They have gone astray and were not [rightly] guided.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

قد خسر وهلك الذين قتلوا أولادهم لضعف عقولهم وجهلهم، وحرموا ما رزقهم الله كذبًا على الله. قد بَعُدوا عن الحق، وما كانوا من أهل الهدى والرشاد. فالتحليل والتحريم من خصائص الألوهية في التشريع، والحلال ما أحله الله، والحرام ما حرَّمه الله، وليس لأحد من خَلْقه فردًا كان أو جماعة أن يشرع لعباده ما لم يأذن به الله.

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