Editing Infanticide (section)

===Islam===
Infanticide is explicitly [[Islam and children#Against infanticide|prohibited by the Qur'an]].<ref name="Oxford">{{Cite book| editor-last= Esposito|editor-first = John L. |title = The Oxford Dictionary of Islam| publisher = [[Oxford University Press]]|year = 2004|location =New York |page = 138|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=6VeCWQfVNjkC&pg=PA138| isbn= 978-0-19-512559-7}}</ref> "And do not kill your children for fear of poverty; We give them sustenance and yourselves too; surely to kill them is a great wrong."<ref>[[Qur'an]], XVII:31. Other passages condemning infanticide in the Qur'an appear in LXXXI:8–9, XVI:60–62, XVII:42 and XLII:48.</ref>
Together with [[polytheism]] and [[homicide]], infanticide is regarded as a grave sin (see {{qref|6|151}} and {{qref|60|12}}).<ref name="Children"/> Infanticide is also implicitly denounced in the story of Pharaoh's slaughter of the male children of Israelites (see {{qref|2|49}}; {{qref|7|127}}; {{qref|7|141}}; {{qref|14|6}}; {{qref|28|4}}; {{qref|40|25}}).<ref name="Children"/>