السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته
الحمد لله و الصلاة و السلام على رسول الله …
[Alhamdulillah, was Salatu was Salaamu Ala Rasoolillaah]
Amma Ba’ad:
I, * bin *, of Class ***, stand before you to narrrate the story of the two sons of Adam Alaihissalaam , Habil and Qabil.
Adam Alaihissalaam, the father of humankind, had two sons called Habil and Qabil.
Acording to the scholars of Tafseer, Adam Alaihissalaam and Hawwa Alaihassalaam would have two sets of twins, a boy and a girl in the morning and a boy and a girl in the evening. It was allowed in those times for siblings to marry each other.
The boy from the morning would marry the girl from the evening and vice versa.
When Habil and Qabil grew up. Qabil wanted to marry has own sister as she was more beautiful than the other and not allow Habil to marry her. Qabil was adamant at this demand.
As a solution Adam Alaihissalaam asked both of them to offer a sacrifice to Allah, the one whose sacrifice would be accepted would marry the beautiful girl.
Qabil offered Allah a sacrifice of bad plants to Allah and Habil offered a healthy sheep. Allah accepted Habil’s sacrifice and rejected Qabil’s sacrifice.
Qabil was enraged and decided to harm his own brother. When he was about to kill Habil, Habil assured his brother that he would not kill Qabil even though Qabil wanted kill him. Qabil hit a rock on the head of Habil and killed him. Qabil became the first murderer of humanity.
Later on Qabil buried his brother after he saw a crow doing the same to a dead crow.
Qabil imitated the grave sin of murder, for which the Prophet ﷺ said, he will be punished for every one of the children of Adam Alaihissalaam who also murder another one of their kind.
The Prophet (ﷺ) said in a Hadith recorded by Imam Al-Bukhari, “No human being is killed unjustly, but a part of the responsibility for the crime is laid on the first son of Adam (who was Qabil) who invented the tradition of killing (murdering) on the earth.
Habil will be rewarded for showing patience and perseverance towards Qabil. Qabil’s jealousy and grudge against the favours that Allah bestowed upon his brother, lead him to commit the crime of murder.
Hence whenever Shaitan creates evil insinuations in our mind about another human being, we should fear Allah and stop them, lest we too fall into the crime of Qabil.
Killing an innocent human being is highly condemned in the Quran.
Allah says in the Quran:
مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَٰلِكَ كَتَبْنَا عَلَىٰ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ أَنَّهُ مَنْ قَتَلَ نَفْسًا بِغَيْرِ نَفْسٍ أَوْ فَسَادٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَكَأَنَّمَا قَتَلَ النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا وَمَنْ أَحْيَاهَا فَكَأَنَّمَا أَحْيَا النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا ۚ وَلَقَدْ جَاءَتْهُمْ رُسُلُنَا بِالْبَيِّنَاتِ ثُمَّ إِنَّ كَثِيرًا مِنْهُمْ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ فِي الْأَرْضِ لَمُسْرِفُونَ
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.
-Sura Al-Ma’idah, Ayah 32
Wa akhiruddawana anilhamdulillah rabbil Alameen.
سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك أشهد أن لا إله الا أنت أستغفرك وأتوب إليك.
Saheehus-Seerah 