And kill not your
children…
Allah says;
وَلَا تَقْتُلُوا أَوْلَادَكُم مِّنْ إِمْلَاقٍ ۖ نَّحْنُ نَرْزُقُكُمْ وَإِيَّاهُمْ
wa laa taQutloo aWlaadakum min imlaaQ. Nanhnu naRzuqukum wa iyyaahum -
And kill not your
children out of poverty, We provide you and
them.
(An'am 6:151)
وَلَا تَقْتُلُوا أَوْلَادَكُمْ خَشْيَةَ إِمْلَاقٍ ۖ نَّحْنُ نَرْزُقُهُمْ وَإِيَّاكُمْ
And kill not your
children for fear [of] poverty. We
provide them and you.
(Israa' 17:31)
It seems like it's
the same thing. But it’s not;
In surah al An'am: it is describing when
Poverty already exists - Who are
you worried about feeding in that moment the
most? = Yourself. So Allah tells us that
He will provide for YOU and them.
In surah al Isra': - there is a Future-Fear of Poverty
being depicted. People may be able to feed themselves, but they fear for the
providing of their children.
So Allah mentions that He will Provide for THEM [the
children], since that is the persons main worry.
This is part of the
Miracle of the Qur'an: the Placement of Words. Each word is
placed in a Unique place in accordance to it's circumstance.
Sometimes you
wonder why words are in a certain order yet their order has such a subtle
implication to give you even more certainty that it is Allah who spoke this
truth.