that is how to most of the polytheists the slaying of their children is presented as decorous by those whom they ascribe as partners that they may ruin them and confound their religion for them. had allah wished they would not have done it. so leave them with what they fabricate.
وكذلك زين لكثير من المشركين قتل أولادهم شركاؤهم ليردوهم وليلبسوا عليهم دينهم ولو شاء الله ما فعلوه فذرهم وما يفترون