Saturday 11 October 2014

Habil & Qabil



And recite to them the story of Adam's two sons, in truth, when they both offered a sacrifice [to Allah ], and it was accepted from one of them but was not accepted from the other. Said [the latter], "I will surely kill you." Said [the former], "Indeed, Allah only accepts from the righteous [who fear Him].
[AL-MAIDAH Ch.5:V.27]

          Peace be upon to all the readers in this blog. It is getting harder when the age of this blog is getting older. I mean that, it is getting difficult for me to maintain writing in this blog. This is because I am a bit busy with my studies here, a lot of reports to do, assignments and other exercises. That is why there is only a few entries in a month. Therefore, I am trying my best to always update my blog with new entry and with fresh ideas.

          For Muslims, our Eid Adha just passed a few days ago. We are celebrating this eid because of famous story about our Prophet Abraham and his son Prophet Ismail. But I do not want to touch about their story, because most people that telling this story, they will tell with correct way. There is another story that I want to “brainwash” the readers here. It is about two sons of Adam, that people always gave name to them, Habil and also Qabil.

          People always take the story of Habil and Qabil from Israilliyyat stories. Even in the Quran did not mention the name of two sons of Adam. So come where their names? So in this entry, I want to wash the bad things about them and give to you all the correct ideas about their stories.

If you should raise your hand against me to kill me - I shall not raise my hand against you to kill you. Indeed, I fear Allah, Lord of the worlds.
[AL-MAIDAH Ch.5:V.28]

          The most popular story about them is that each of them had their own twin pair. When it comes to give married to them, they need to marry in cross style. Qabil needs to marry Habil’s twin and Habil needs to marry Qabil’s twin. However, Qabil did not agree with his father, Prophet Adam because Qabil is a handsome person and his twin also beautiful. It is opposite with Habil that is not too handsome and his twin not as beautiful as Qabil’s twin. Then they need to perform a sacrifice.

          Allah already mention to our Prophet Muhammad as shown in the first verse I put. Allah tells Prophet Muhammad to say the truth about the story of two sons of Adam. But when it comes to us, we took the story from the Jews (in their scripture). So I want us to come back and take the story from the most authentic resource that is Quran. Let us look about their story as mentioned in the Quran.

          Obviously, in Quran did not say that they want to marry or what, Quran only say that they do a sacrifice. One of them is accepted the sacrifice and the other one are not accepted. So it makes the one not accepted the sacrifice feels not satisfied. Therefore, he wanted to kill the other one. In the Quran also did not mention their names. So let us give simple cop to them. Let say A is the one that his sacrifice is accepted and B is the one that his sacrifice is not accepted.

Indeed I want you to obtain [thereby] my sin and your sin so you will be among the companions of the Fire. And that is the recompense of wrongdoers."
[AL-MAIDAH Ch.5:V.29]

And his soul permitted to him the murder of his brother, so he killed him and became among the losers.
[AL-MAIDAH Ch.5:V.30]

The story is more on the sacrifice and as mentioned in the verse, Allah only accepted the sacrifice from those who are righteous and fear of Him. The other part of the story is about killing person. The verses after that are all about B wanted to kill A. All the verses actually teach us how to react and how to response when there is people want to kill us.

          In the verse 29, it stated that if we kill someone, we will need to bear our own sin and the person’s sin. And of course we will belong to a group of losers. To make B regret about killing his brother, Allah sent a crow to teach him to hide his brother’s body. Of course we will feel shame as human need to learn from a crow. With a brain that can think and differentiate bad and good, still need to learn from a crow that has much little brain than human being.

Then Allah sent a crow searching in the ground to show him how to hide the disgrace of his brother. He said, "O woe to me! Have I failed to be like this crow and hide the body of my brother?" And he became of the regretful.
[AL-MAIDAH Ch.5:V.31]

          A few months ago, my friends and I did a presentation about Islam and terrorism. We did touch about this story and with important evidence from Quran that is the verse below. It is clear stated in Quran that prohibit human to kill each other. When we kill one person, it is such as killing the whole nation. It means that we are creating a situation that not peace. People will feel afraid to come out from their houses and also afraid to have social lives.

There is a research saying that, the first time the person want to kill, he/she needs to fight with his/her own self. Only the first time is difficult to do it. After he/she have done it, the second time to kill other person is become easier as he/she already across the “trash holes”.

It is opposite if we save person lives. It such as us already saved the whole nation and creating a peace environment. People will feel comfortable and safe. This is the phycology teach from Quran and also an evidence to prove to the people that saying Islam is promoting violence and terrorism.

Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land - it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one - it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, [even] after that, throughout the land, were transgressors.
[AL-MAIDAH Ch.5:V32]


~Wallahua’lam~

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