Reflect on this ayah, 'Shaitan beautified their actions to them…' [Surat An-Nahl: 63] This doesn’t only apply to haram actions like adultery, drugs, and alcohol. This ayah also means something else. When you are doing the work of Islam—da’wah, praying, fasting—but you are doing it for the wrong reasons, shaitan beautifies that, too. Because he doesn’t care about the deed, he only cares that your heart should be corrupt.

As we navigate this world we should be mindful of Allah at all times; for no doubt, Satan has empowered people to have a false appeal to other people and people are immersed in the evils of the times. Those who strive to stay out of the confusion and delusions are looked at as being strange. For those of us who are wise, we are okay with that because the prophet (PBUH) said we should be in this world as if we are strangers. Those who are mindful of Allah know that this world is just a probationary temporary existence that should be governed by the guidance that has been sent to mankind from Allah. Unfortunately, once people come into a state of understanding and can make decisions they a

Al-Baghawi mentions how this practice of burying one’s infant daughter took place in his Tafseer (2/619): When an Arab man would have a daughter, and he wanted to let her live, he would dress her in a robe made of wool or hair and would leave her in the desert for the camels and sheep to graze. If he wanted to kill her, he would wait until she was six years old and then say to her mother: 'Dress her up so that I can take her to marry her off.' He would dig a ditch for her in the desert, and when he reached the ditch with her, he would say: 'Go look into that well,' and then push her from behind into the well. He would then pour the dirt onto her head until the well was filled all the way