الْاَنْعَامِ

Surah Al-An'am, ayah 137

The Cattle · Meccan · 165 ayahs

6:137

وَكَذٰلِكَ زَیَّنَ لِكَثٖیرٍ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكٖینَ قَتْلَ اَوْلَادِهِمْ شُرَكَٓاؤُ𐻾هُمْ لِیُرْدُوهُمْ وَلِیَلْبِسُوا عَلَیْهِمْ دٖینَهُمْؕ وَلَوْ شَٓاءَ اللّٰهُ مَا فَعَلُوهُ فَذَرْهُمْ وَمَا یَفْتَرُونَ

Wakathalika zayyana likatheerin mina almushrikeena qatla awladihim shurakaohum liyurdoohum waliyalbisoo AAalayhim deenahum walaw shaa Allahu ma faAAaloohu fatharhum wama yaftaroona

Translations

And likewise, to many of the polytheists their partners have made [to seem] pleasing the killing of their children in order to bring about their destruction and to cover them with confusion in their religion. And if Allah had willed, they would not have done so. So leave them and that which they invent

Saheeh International

Thus have their (so-called) partners (of Allah) made the killing of their children to seem fair unto many of the idolaters, that they may ruin them and make their faith obscure for them. Had Allah willed (it otherwise), they had not done so. So leave them alone with their devices

Marmaduke Pickthall