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The kingdom of the heavens and earth belongs to Allah. He creates
whatever He wills. He gives daughters to whoever He wishes; and
He gives sons to whoever He wishes; or He gives them both sons and
daughters; and He makes whoever He wishes barren. Truly He is
All-Knowing, All-Powerful. (Surat ash-Shura: 49-50)

It is Allah Who wills the birth of boys as well as girls and parents
are expected to raise them in love, affection and compassion as recom-
mended by Allah.
Throughout history, Islam forbade the barbaric practice of infanti-
cide of idolatrous religions wherever it went and brought such practices

to an end. Allah has taught nations unaware of the Islamic morality the
wrongness of this attitude towards girls through His messengers and the
books of revelation. With the teaching of the Islamic morality delivered
by prophets, being acquired by people, the thought of girls being a cause
for embarrassment and the aforementioned barbaric practices of igno-
rant societies have almost been eradicated. However, India is still per-
sists in its ancient and perverse practices of killing baby girls.

THE HORROR OF SATI OR THE BURNING OF WIDOWS
The perverse practices ruling social life in India are too numerous
to recount. Each of these superstitious beliefs has its own rituals and
variations according to the area but the most horrific of them all must be
the “suttee”, killing hundred of thousands of women over the centuries.
This perverse tradition requires widows to die by burning upon the

death of their husbands.
The horrific suttee tradition began to be practiced at the time of the
Aryan’s conquest of India. In the case of an individual woman this prac-
tice is termed suttee but when whole towns or villages are affected, it is

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)