Allah the Exalted said: “And when one of them is given the tidings of a female, his face becomes dark and he is full of suppressed grief.” Is the intended meaning the first daughter or all daughters?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, regarding the saying of the Exalted and Majestic:[An-Nahl 16:58] Is the daughter referred to here the first one, or all the daughters a person has, such that he practices the live burial of her?
Answer:
All daughters. They did not want daughters in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah); they did not want daughters. They said that a daughter brings disgrace to her family, so they got rid of her by live burial, which is burying her alive. They do not want to attribute to Allah what they hate; they attribute daughters to Allah while they hate daughters. This is a contradiction in their stance.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, regarding the saying of the Exalted and Majestic:
And when one of them is informed of [the birth of] a female, his face becomes dark, and he suppresses grief.
وَإِذَا بُشِّرَ أَحَدُهُم بِالْأُنثَىٰ ظَلَّ وَجْهُهُ مُسْوَدًّا وَهُوَ كَظِيمٌAnswer:
All daughters. They did not want daughters in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah); they did not want daughters. They said that a daughter brings disgrace to her family, so they got rid of her by live burial, which is burying her alive. They do not want to attribute to Allah what they hate; they attribute daughters to Allah while they hate daughters. This is a contradiction in their stance.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [210 /641] قال تعالى (وإذا بشر أحدهم بالأنثى ظل وجهه مسودا) هل المقصود البنت الأولى أم جميع البنات.. — youtube.com
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