A pregnant she-camel was something the Arabs in the past greatly cared for and deeply valued. If you took good care of it, it would give birth to another camel, and suddenly you would have two. Two in one !
But who did the Arabs in the past not care for? The newborn female children. They would bury them because they were not boys.
In this worldly life, the she-camel is cared for and well looked after, while baby girls are buried.
I saw a photo of a child buried under the rubble of a bombed building and remembered this Surah. On the day the child who was buried alive will be asked 'for what crime were you buried alive'. Interestingly, the current war on Palestine has been closely associated with the phrase 'misinformation' with every group and party accusing the other of misinformation. In the 10th ayah of this Surah, Allah SWT reminds' when t...