They said: "O Mûsa (Moses)! We shall never enter it as long
as they are there. So go you and your Lord and fight you two, we are sitting
right here." (24) He [Mûsa (Moses)] said: "O my Lord! I have power
only over myself and my brother, so separate us from the people who are the
Fâsiqûn (rebellious and disobedient to Allâh)!" (25) (Allâh) said:
"Therefore it (this holy land) is forbidden to them for forty years; in
distraction they will wander through the land. So be not sorrowful over the
people who are the Fâsiqûn (rebellious and disobedient to Allâh)." (26) And (O Muhammad SAW)
recite to them (the Jews) the story of the two sons of Adam (Hâbil and Qâbil —
Abel and Cain)] in truth; when each offered a sacrifice (to Allâh), it was
accepted from the one but not from the other. The latter said to the former:
"I will surely kill you.[]" The former said:
"Verily, Allâh accepts only from those who are Al-Muttaqûn (the pious -
see V.2:2)." (27) "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 Allâh; the
Lord of the 'Alamîn (mankind, jinn, and all that exists)." (28) "Verily, I
intend to let you draw my sin on yourself as well as yours, then you will be
one of the dwellers of the Fire, and that is the recompense of the Zâlimûn
(polytheists and wrong¬doers)." (29) So the Nafs (self) of the other
(latter one) encouraged him and made fair¬seeming to him the murder of his
brother; he murdered him and became one of the losers. (30) Then Allâh sent a
crow who scratched the ground to show him to hide the dead body of his brother.
He (the murderer) said: "Woe to me! Am I not even able to be as this crow
and to hide the dead body of my brother?" Then he became one of those who
regretted. (31)