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وَلَا تَقْتُلُوٓا۟ أَوْلَـٰدَكُمْ خَشْيَةَ إِمْلَـٰقٍ ۖ نَّحْنُ نَرْزُقُهُمْ وَإِيَّاكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ قَتْلَهُمْ كَانَ خِطْـًٔا كَبِيرًا
Text: Tanzil Project,tanzil.net · verbatim and unchanged · previous verse · next verse
Slay not your children, fearing a fall to poverty, We shall provide for them and for you. Lo! the slaying of them is great sin.— Marmaduke Pickthall
Summary
Verse 31 of Surat al-Isra, a Meccan surah. Scholars connect its revelation to burying daughters alive (wa'd). 1
Place in the museum
Its place: verse 31 of 111 verses in the surah. The text is kept in the frozen Tanzil mushaf and is not retyped here.
Connections
- Revealed about
- Waʾd (Infant Burial)
- Part of
- Sura 17: Al-Isra
Sources
- Tanzil Project, Qur'an text v1.1
- Tanzil Project, public-domain translations
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Qur'an 17:31”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/passage/quran-17-31/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.