Message of the Holy Quran — Page 5
~ 5 ~ Abel: ( H a b i l ) & Cain And relate to them with truth the story of the two sons of Adam, when they each of- fered an offering and it was accepted from one of them and was not accepted from the other. The latter said, 'I will surely kill thee. ' The for- mer replied, 'Allah accepts only from the righteous;' 'If thou stretch out thy hand against me to kill me, I shall not stretch out my hand against thee to kill thee. I do fear Allah, the Lord of the Universe;' 'I wish that thou shouldst bear the punishment of the sin against me as well as of thine own sin, and thus be among the inmates of the Fire, and that is the re-compense of those who do wrong. ’ But his evil self-induced him to kill his brother, so he killed him and became one of the losers. Then Allah sent a raven which scratched in the ground, that He might show him how to hide the corpse of his brother. He said, 'Woe is me! Am I not able to be even like this raven so that I may hide the corpse of my brother?' And then he became remorseful. 5:28-32