{
 "id": "concept/wad",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "wad",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الوأد",
  "en": "Waʾd (Infant Burial)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الوأد: دفن الأنثى حية خوفاً من الفقر أو العار؛ ثم ضاع الإسلام عنه حتى عُدّ من أكبر الكبائر.",
  "en": "Waʾd: burying infant girls alive out of fear of poverty or disgrace — Islam abolished it and classed it among the gravest sins."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "tradition-versus-culture",
  "women",
  "family-marriage-kinship"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "social",
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 35–47"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "الوأد: دفن الأنثى حية خوفاً من الفقر أو العار؛ كان أشنع ما في الجاهلية، وأبطله القرآن وعظّم إثمه."
    },
    {
     "heading": "القصة",
     "markdown": "كان من أشنع عادات أهل الجاهلية وأقبحها الوأد: دفن البنت وهي حية، إما خوفاً من الفقر وإما خشية أن تأتي منها قصة عار {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "في القرآن",
     "markdown": "ولما جاء الإسلام سئلت المَوءودة بأي ذنب قتلت: «وَإِذَا الْمَوْءُودَةُ سُئِلَتْ * بِأَيِّ ذَنبٍ قُتِلَتْ» ([[passage/quran-81-8|التكوير 8–9]])، ونهى عن قتل الأولاد خشية الإملاق: «وَلَا تَقْتُلُوا أَوْلَادَكُمْ خَشْيَةَ إِمْلَاقٍ» ([[passage/quran-17-31|الإسراء 31]])، وجعل قتلهم خسراناً وضلوعاً عن الدين: «قَدْ خَسِرَ الَّذِينَ قَتَلُوا أَوْلَادَهُمْ سَفَهًا» ([[passage/quran-6-140|الأنعام 140]]) {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "كان بعض الناس قديماً يدفنون بناتهم الصغار وهنّ أحياء خوفاً من الفقر، فجاء الإسلام يحرّم ذلك ويجعله من أعظم الذنوب."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/wad",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Wa'd: burying a female infant alive from fear of poverty or disgrace; the foulest practice of the Jahiliyya, which the Qur'an abolished and magnified as a sin."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The story",
     "markdown": "Among the foulest and ugliest customs of the Jahiliyya people was wa'd: burying the daughter alive, whether from fear of poverty or dread that a tale of disgrace might come of her {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "In the Qur'an",
     "markdown": "When Islam came, the buried infant was asked for what sin she was killed: \"And when the buried infant is asked for what sin she was killed\" ([[passage/quran-81-8|al-Takwir 8–9]]); He forbade killing children from fear of poverty: \"Do not kill your children for fear of want\" ([[passage/quran-17-31|al-Isra' 31]]); and made killing them loss and straying from the religion: \"Lost are those who killed their children in folly\" ([[passage/quran-6-140|al-An'am 140]]) {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Some people long ago buried their little daughters alive from fear of poverty; Islam came forbidding that and making it among the greatest sins."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/wad",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 10,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-17-31",
   "type": "revealed_in",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-6-140",
   "type": "revealed_in",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-6-151",
   "type": "revealed_in",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-81-8",
   "type": "revealed_in",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-81-9",
   "type": "revealed_in",
   "inverse": true
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "concept/jahili-marriage-forms",
  "event/marriage-of-fatima-and-ali",
  "event/marriage-to-khadija",
  "event/marriage-to-sawda",
  "event/marriage-to-zaynab-bint-jahsh",
  "event/the-choice-of-the-prophets-wives",
  "group/mothers-of-the-believers",
  "person/al-jawniyya"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}