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.
وكذلك زين لكثير من المشركين قتل أولادهم شركاؤهم ليردوهم وليلبسوا عليهم دينهم ولو شاء الله ما فعلوه فذرهم وما يفترون