Quran Chapter
5- 27 (Pt-6, Stg-2) (L-667) - درس قرآن
Result of killing an innocent
Surah
MAAA-‘IDAH (The
Table Spread) – Chapter – 5)
‘A-‘uu-zu
Billaahi minash-Shay-taanir- Rajiim.
(I seek refuge in God from Satan the outcast.)
Bis-Millaahir-Rah-maanir-Rahiim.
(In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful.)
(I seek refuge in God from Satan the outcast.)
Bis-Millaahir-Rah-maanir-Rahiim.
(In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful.)
God Almighty commands to His
Messenger (grace, glory, blessings and peace be upon Him): Recite and cause to
hear them with truth the tale of the two sons of Adam (peace be upon him),
{that how did they both offer a sacrifice separately, and it was accepted from
one of them and was not accepted from the other. The other said: I will surely
kill thee. The first person answered: Allah accepteth only from those who ward
off (evil)}. So that they may understand that killing of an innocent for
fulfilling own desire and refusing from fighting according to God’s commandment
is just like fighting against Allah Almighty. This refusal is not due to the
reason that they do not know “how to slay”. But the object of their such
behavior is that they kill the innocent people, which is cause of disturbance
in the society. And when Allah Almighty
commands them to kill the enemies, due to slaying of which, the disturbance and
outbreak may be hindered. And peace is established. At that time, they reply
stupidly and refuse to strive. What can be result of this denial except that
those should be ruined and punished very severely, who refused from Jihad.
Prophet Adam (peace be upon
Him) desired to wed Abel with a girl in accord with the procedure at that time.
Cain, the brother of Abel said, “No, I should be married this girl”. To finish
the wrangling, Prophet Adam (peace be upon Him) said to his both sons, “You
both should offer a sacrifice separately for the sake of Allah Almighty.
That girl will be married with the person, whose sacrifice is accepted”. It was
an established order in those days that the person, who had to offer a
sacrifice, he used to bring any good thing and put it at a prescribed place.
The sacrifice of the person, whose was accepted, that person’s thing was taken
up by a fire, and whose thing was not eaten by the fire, that was considered
“Not accepted”.
The offering was brought by the
both i.e. Abel and Cain and kept at the specified place. The fire came and ate
the offering of Abel. It meant that application of Cain was rejected. Now the
marriage of that girl was required to be done with Abel. At this stage, fire of
jealousy broke out in the heart of Cain. He said to Abel very clearly, “I will
kill you, if you tried to wed that girl”.
Those people, who are frenzied
of their wishes, they know nothing except that their desires should be
fulfilled, and that the person should be driven back from the path, whoever
becomes a stoppage in fulfilling of their wish. For this purpose, they use to
conspire, flatter, give a bribe and threaten others, to such extent that, they
never miss any opportunity, and throw every care behind regarding everything
like evil, reward, lawful and unlawful. Cain adopted the same way too and
threatened his own brother to kill him.
Abel was a simple person, and
had a civilized and unraveled nature. He said, “My offering has been accepted.
Its reason is that neither I want to deprive any right of anyone, nor envy from
any person, nor intend to quarrel with anyone. I keep myself away from the
matters of mischief and disturbance. Allah Almighty likes the deeds of this
kind and these are the tokens of pious and abstinent people. And it is
determined Divine Law that He accepts the sacrifice of the pious and abstinent
people”.
Transliterated Holy Qur’an in Roman Script & Translated from
Arabic to English by Marmaduke Pickthall,
Published by Paak Company, 17-Urdu Bazaar, Lahore, Lesson collected from Dars e Qur’aan published By Idara Islaah wa Tableegh, Lahore (translated Urdu to
English by Muhammad Sharif). https://youtu.be/R2AVWkd_hHE
