And when He, glorified and exalted is He, mentioned the details of their foolishness and indicated its meanings, He gathered them and stated what it has resulted in of disappointment in seven traits, each one of which is a complete reason for the occurrence of regret. He said: ﴿Certainly, they have lost﴾. And He made clear in the place of concealment a generalization and a suspension of the ruling by description. He said: ﴿Those who killed﴾. Ibn 'Amir and Ibn Kathir read it with emphasis for the intention of abundance, while the others read it with lightening. ﴿Their children foolishly﴾ means: lightly in committing the blameworthy act and recklessly, driven by the devils who speak on the tongues of the idols or their priests to that end.

And when foolishness is contrary to the gravity of knowledge, from which the action arising from it can only be through deliberation, contemplation, reflection, and insight, He stated clearly what He understood: ﴿Without knowledge﴾. That is: as for one who killed his child with knowledge - as if he were a disbeliever or a murderer or an adult who committed adultery - his ruling is not like that. And when He mentioned the greatness of what they have committed, He mentioned the majesty of what they refrained from, saying: ﴿And they prohibited what Allah has provided for them﴾. That is: which there is no owner besides Him, as a mercy for them, from those livestock and grains, without any law or benefit in any way ﴿Fabricating﴾. That is: deliberately lying ﴿against Allah﴾, who has all greatness.

And when they have certainly lost three losses along with their claim of the utmost insight in trades: the soul by killing children, and wealth by prohibiting what Allah has provided for them, this resulted in the loss of religion - its outcome was His saying: ﴿Certainly, they have gone astray﴾. That is: they have exceeded and deviated from the truth and have gone astray. And when the misguided may have their misguidance as an occasional slip, and guidance may be an original description in them, He alerted that misguidance is their fixed description by saying: ﴿And they were not﴾. That is: in anything of this from the character of morals ﴿guided﴾. That is: there was no description of guidance in their being, rather they increased in that misguidance. Al-Bukhari said in (the virtues) of his Sahih: Abu Nu'man narrated to us, Abu 'Awanah narrated to us from Abu Bishr from Sa'id ibn Jubair from Ibn Abbas - may Allah be pleased with them - who said: If you wish to know the ignorance of the Arabs, read what is above thirty and one hundred in Surah Al-An'am ﴿Certainly, they have lost those who killed their children foolishly﴾ - until His saying: ﴿And they were not guided﴾. And he has in the delegation of Banu Hanifah from the battles from Mahdi ibn Maymun who said: I heard Abu Raja' Al-Utaridi say: We used to worship a stone, and if we found a stone better than it, we would throw it away and take the other. And if we did not find a stone, we would gather a handful of dust, then we would bring a sheep and milk it on it, then we would circumambulate with it. And when the month of Rajab entered, we would say: 'The month of the spearheads', so we would not leave a spear that had iron in it nor an arrow that had iron in it except that we would remove it and throw it away [the month of Rajab].