| Then, should this monstrosity remain wholly unpunished in the Kingdom of God? " The history of Arabia also shows that many people in the pre-Islamic days of ignorance had a feeling that the practice was vile and wicked | Holding her by the hand I pushed her into the well |
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| Male offspring were brought up in the hope that they would later help in earning a living, but the female offspring were killed for the fear that they would have to be reared till they matured and then given away in marriage | When I called her, she would come running to me |
That is why the Holy Qur'an has not dwelt upon the vileness of this act, but has only referred to it in awe-inspiring words to the effect: "A time will come when the girl who was buried alive, will be asked for what crime she was slain? " Bukhari, Al-Adab al-Mufrad, Ibn Majah.
2| "The one who brought up two girls till they attained their maturity, will appear along with me on the Resurrection Day | On the contrary, Islam taught that bringing up daughters, giving them good education and enabling them to become good housewives, is an act of great merit and virtue |
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| Third, another aspect of the common chaos also was that when the hostile tribes raided each other and captured girls they would either keep them as slave-girls or sell them to others | For these reasons the practice that had become common in Arabia was that at childbirth a pit was kept dug out ready for use by the woman so that if a girl was born, she was immediately cast into it and buried alive |
AIlah will make Paradise obligatory for him.
| "The one who has a daughter born to him and he does not bury her alive, nor keeps her in disgrace, nor prefers his son to her, Allah will admit him to Paradise | A man asked: what about two, O Messenger of Allah? And if sometimes the mother was not inclined to act thus, or the people of the family disapproved of it, the father would rear her for some time half-heartedly, and then finding time would take her to the desert to be buried alive |
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| Indonesia - Bahasa Indonesia : karena dosa apakah dia dibunuh• ' It is not correct to think that the people of Arabia had no feeling of the baseness of this hideous, inhuman act | This act was looked upon with approval by the depraved society; neither the parents felt any remorse for it, nor anybody in the family censured them, nor the society took any notice of it |
"The one who has three daughters born to him, and he is patient over them, and clothes them well according to his means, they will become a means of rescue for him from Hell.
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