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Islam - Children's Corner
Habeel and Qabeel
- Abel and Cain
The world was very big. Allah wanted to fill it with human beings.
He wanted people everywhere - in the coldest and hottest of places, in the
deserts, the forests, and the mountains. . . . So He blessed Adam and Hawa so
that they had two children every day -- a son and a daughter -- for a long time.
They had many, many children, sons and daughters.
Soon, mankind spread all over the earth. White, black and yellow, people of all
races, are children of the same father and mother -- Adam and Hawa.
Now, I will tell you the story of Habeel (Abel) and Qabeel (Cain), the sons of
Adam and Hawa.
Both of them wanted to marry the same girl, who was very beautiful. They did not
know how to decide which one of them should marry her. So Adam asked each one of
them to give a nazar (an offering) to Allah. And the one whose nazar was
accepted by Him was to marry the girl.
Habeel whose intentions were good chose the best sheep from his flock and gave
it as an offering to God. Qabeel kept the best for himself and gave a poor
offering. Naturally, of the two, God accepted Habeel's offering -- a fire came
and took it away. This meant that Habeel had God's permission to marry the girl.
Qabeel grew very angry at this and said that he would marry her at all costs.
Habeel, however, refused to fight. But Qabeel was furious and he hit his brother
with a stone which killed him.
It was the first time that anyone had ever killed another person, so after
killing Habeel, Qabeel was terribly afraid. He did not know what to do with the
dead body. He carried it on his shoulders and wandered around helplessly.
Then Allah sent two crows who fought in front of Qabeel. One of them was killed.
The other dug a hole in the ground and pulled the body of the dead crow into it
covering it with earth.
Seeing this, Qabeel cursed himself for not knowing even as much as the crow. He
then dug a grave for his brother Habeel and buried him in it.
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The
Holy Quran Quotes
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“As for those who divide their religion and break up into sects, thou has no part in them in the least....”
(Al-An'aam, 6:159)
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