[26]. This completes the powerful depiction of pre-Islamic ignorance and moral decay.
When told of the birth of a daughter, the man’s face darkens, and now, as described here, he withdraws in shame, struggling with his misguided pride. He hides himself from society, torn between two cruel choices:
A. To keep her alive in humiliation, treating her as a burden and a source of disgrace, B. To bury her alive in the dust, committing an unspeakable act of injustice and cruelty.
The Qur’an concludes with a piercing judgment: “Unquestionably, evil is what they judge.”
This closing statement is both a divine condemnation and a moral awakening—it exposes how utterly corrupt human values become when detached from the guidance of Allāh.