The jinn commanded the idolaters to kill their children and to bury their daughters alive claiming that this is Allah’s command and this is the religion of Abraham and Ishmael. This crime against humanity was a custom that happened many times throughout the history.
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It is worth mentioning that Allah has created two responsible creatures; they are jinn and man.
Allah has sent messengers to both the jinn and the mankind with the message that is to worship the only one true God whose name is Allah.
The response of man to Allah’s message is well known and there are believers and unbelievers among mankind and so is the response of jinn to Allah’s message.
It follows that we have believers and unbelievers among the jinn.
The unbelievers among the jinn are the devils and their big boss is Satan himself; their fate is the Eternal fire in the Afterlife.
It is expected the unbelievers among the jinn would have many varieties of cooperation with the unbelievers among mankind by inspiring wicked men with invented sinful ideas in order to keep them on the wrong path that ultimately leads to Eternal fire in the Afterlife.
The unbelievers among mankind enjoyed such cooperation and they used to seek help of the devils jinn in many fields like magic, controlling other people, doing some trivial tricky things to other people etc.
In the article: Chapter 6 of the Quran (89) Fate of Men seeking Devils’ Help, the Quran forbids such cooperation and warned both of evil jinn and men with the Eternal fire in the Afterlife.
Ayah 6:137 mentions a crime against humanity due to the cooperation between the evil jinn and men.
The jinn have adorned for many of the idolaters the slaying of their children, by burying them alive.
The jinn have commanded the idolaters among the Arabs to kill their children and their daughters claiming that this is Allah’s command and this is the religion of Abraham and Ishmael.
As a matter of fact, they were worshipping their boss, the Satan.
Unfotuanately, this crime against humanity was a custom that happened many times throughout the history.
It should be emphasized that Allah forbids this crime (the verses 81:8-9)
Ayah 6:137 continues saying:
Had Allah willed, they would not have done so;
So leave them and that which they fabricate of their religion.
So leave them alone with their devils
So leave them alone with their lies when they claim that Allah commands them to bury their daughters alive.
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The verse 6:137 in different translations
QARIB:
As such their associates made it attractive to the idolaters to kill their children so that they ruin them and confuse them about their religion.
But had Allah willed, they would not have done so. Therefore, leave them to their false inventions.
SHAKIR:
And thus their associates have made fair seeming to most of the polytheists the killing of their children, that they may cause them to perish and obscure for them their religion; and if Allah had pleased, they would not have done it, therefore leave them and that which they forge
PICKTHAL:
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.
YUSUFALI:
Even so, in the eyes of most of the pagans, their “partners” made alluring the slaughter of their children, in order to lead them to their own destruction, and cause confusion in their religion. if Allah had willed, they would not have done so: but leave alone them and their inventions.
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