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This story has been widely used by many to insinuate that muslims were a bunch of incestuous blood thirsty evil folks. So just to set the record straight: One has to remember that since the beginning of time, God has assigned specific rules to a specific communities. For example, some food were forbidden to the Jews but were allowed to Mohamed's followers.
So, the fact that a sister could marry a brother was allowed (but again there was a rule to follow, a sister could marry her brother, not her twin brother) given that there was no other way to populate the Earth. This rule was abolished later on when there was no need for it. Let's remember as well that a sister cannot marry a brother for logical biological reason: the genes'pool needs to regenerate.
Another thing, the Bible and the Torah depict the same story as well, so let's not give the stick to Islam.....
Let's get back to the point shall we:
Allah describes the evil end and consequence of transgression, envy and injustice in the story of the two sons of Adam, Habil and Qabil. One of them fought against the other and killed him out of envy and transgression, because of the bounty that Allah gave his brother and because the sacrifice that he sincerely offered to Allah was accepted. The murdered brother earned forgiveness for his sins and was admitted into Paradise, while the murderer failed and earned a losing deal in both the lives.
Habil's twin sister was not beautiful when Qabil's was. Therefore, Qabil asked his brother if he would give up marrying his twin sister as he saw himself having more right to her. Habil refused. The two brothers went then to their father: Adam (PBUH) and informed him of the quarrel. Adam told them that a sacrifice should be made by both of them and the one that would see his sacrifice accepted by Allah would marry the beautiful sister.
Habil sacrificed a sheep and Qabil some food stuff. Habil's plea was accepted and Qabil refused.
Enraged and full of jealously Qabil went on to strike his brother. Habil asthough the strongest of the two refused to raise his hand against his blood brother by fear of God.
"If you do stretch your hand against me to kill me, I shall never stretch my hand against you to kill you, for I fear Allah; the Lord of all that exists."
Ibliss (the Devil), actually showed him how to perform the evil deed by taking an animal head and smashing it with a stone, so that he could emulate him. Qabil in his folly did as he had been shown....
Shaytan then went to Eve in a hurry and said to her, `O Eve! Qabil killed Habil.' She asked him, `Woe to you! What does `kill' mean' He said, `He will no longer eat, drink or move.' She said, `And that is death' He said, `Yes it is.' So she started to weep until Adam came to her while she was weeping and said, `What is the matter with you' She did not answer him. He asked her two more times, but she did not answer him. So he said, `You and your daughters will inherit the practice of weeping, while I and my sons are free of it.
Ibn Jarir recorded that `Abdullah bin `Amr used to say, "The son of Adam, who killed his brother, will be the most miserable among men. There is no blood shed on earth since he killed his brother, until the Day of Resurrection, but he will carry a burden from it, for he was the first person to establish murder.''
When his brother died, Qabil left him on the bare ground and did not know how to bury him. Allah sent two crows, which fought with each other until one of them killed the other. So it dug a hole and threw sand over the dead corpse.
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