Some Thoughts On Habil (Abel)
- philhoraia
- Jun 13, 2024
- 3 min read
S 5:27-32 And read to them the news of the two sons of Adam in truth, when they offered a qurban and it was accepted from one of them but was not accepted from the other. He said: I will kill you. He said: Allah only accepts from the fearers. / If you stretch your hand towards me to kill me I do not stretch my hand towards you to kill you. I fear Allah, the lord of the ‘alamin. / I want you to return with my sin and your sin and you to be of the companions of the fire, and that is the recompense of the wrongdoers. / So his soul enticed him to kill his brother. So he killed him and he became of the losers. / And Allah raised a crow, searching in the earth, to show him how to hide the abomination of his brother. He said: Woe is me! Was I incapable of being like this crow and hide the abomination of my brother? So he became of the regretful. / From that term we wrote upon the Banu Isra’il that he who killed a soul for other than a soul or corruption in the land, it is as though he had killed all people and he who saved it, it is as though he had saved all people. And our messengers came to them with the proofs then many of them after that exceed in the land.
Was all of this supposed to be found written somewhere? Who are, according to the clear and detailed quran, these two sons? If Muslims don't sacrifice, why are they offering a qurban? Whose was accepted? The one who would kill the other is supposedly Qabil (Cain). (Habil) says that Allah accepts from the fearers. Who were the fearers if not just Adam, his wife and one of his sons? 'Fearers' is in the Arabic plural, so three or more. Are there other human beings besides them on Earth? (Habil) wants his brother to bear his sin and his own. But isn't everyone supposed to bear only his own sin and no one else's? See: Burden Bearers He speaks of his brothers returning with those sins. Return where? To Earth? He speaks of the companions of the fire. Were there people who had been damned in his lifetime? Were there wrongdoers (plural) around? (Qabil), we are told, became one of the losers (plural).
S 5:32 is based on the Talmud.
For thus we find in the case of Cain, who killed his brother, that it is written: the bloods of thy brother cry unto me: not the blood of thy brother, but the bloods of thy brother, is said — i.e., his blood and the blood of his [potential] descendants. (alternatively, the bloods of thy brother, teaches that his blood was splashed over trees and stones.) For this reason was man created alone, to teach thee that whosoever destroys a single soul of israel, scripture imputes [guilt] to him as though he had destroyed a complete world; and whosoever preserves a single soul of israel, scripture ascribes [merit] to him as though he had preserved a complete world. Furthermore, [he was created alone] for the sake of peace among men, that one might not say to his fellow, 'my father was greater than thine, and that the minim might not say, there are many ruling powers in heaven;
Talmud: Sanhedrin 37a Parallelism: Sanhedrin 37a - WikiIslam
The messengers came to them, the Israelites, with the proofs. See:
The messengers came to the Israelites with 'the' proofs but Allah's boss, supposedly a messenger, didn't come to the Arabs with 'the' proofs?
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