Cain was an ignorant creature, not knowing any thing. He learnt from the crow how to bury his brother. He looked at his hand. He shook dust off it. Then he asked himself: “Cain what you have done?”
He went on asking himself: “Why have I killed my brother? What have I got? I have got nothing except regret and pain.” The sun sank below the horizon. It got dark. Darkness covered the valley. Cain returned to his hut.
Before Cain reached his hut, he saw a fire in the distance.
The fire had flames. Cain was afraid of the fire. He was afraid of the fire that accepted the sacrifice of his brother and refused to accept his. Cain tried to escape but he found nowhere to escape to.
He saw his father Adam waiting for them. Adam was waiting for the return his two sons. However, Cain returned alone.
Adam was sad and anxious. He asked his son Cain: “Cain, where is your brother?”
Cain answered angrily: “I don’t know!”
Adam understood that something had happened.
He asked Cain: “Where have you left him?”
“There, among those hills,” replied Cain.
Adam ordered him: “Take me to that place!”
Cain pointed to the place. He began walking and his father walked behind him.
They heard the bleat of the sheep and goats in the distance. Adam saw the cattle sleeping about the valley.
Adam cried loudly: “Abel, where are you?”
However, no one replied. In the moon light, Adam saw something glittering on the rocks, on the ground. He smelled something strange. He understood what had happened. He knew that Cain had killed his brother.
Adam shouted angrily: “Cain may Allah curse you! Why have you killed your brother? Why have you made corruption and shed blood on the earth? Allah did not create you for that! May Allah curse you?”
Cain escaped. He became lost in the earth. He ran madly. He slept in caves. He bowed to fire. He prostrated to it because he was afraid of it. His life was full of sufferings and regret.
Adam went back to his hut. He wept for his son Abel. Abel was good. He was oppressed.
Adam wept for forty days. Eve also wept for her son. Allah inspired Adam that He would give him another son. The son would be as good as Abel was. Nine months had passed. Eve gave birth to a boy baby. The baby was very handsome. Its face was as bright as the moon.
Adam was happy. His heart was full of happiness, for Allah had given him a son who was as good as Abel. Seven days passed. Adam thought of the name of his son.
On the seventh day, Adam said to his wife: “We’ll call the baby Sheet, namely the gift of Allah, for Allah’s gifted us with him.”
Days and years passed. Sheet became a young man. Adam became an old man, and Eve became an old woman.
Adam was satisfied with Allah’s decree. His sons became grown-ups. He had offspring. They worked, planted their land and built their houses. Meanwhile, they worshipped Allah. Cain lived somewhere in the earth. He also had children in the earth.
One day Adam said to his son Sheet: “My son, I want some grapes.”
Sheet rose and set off towards to the grapevines. He picked some ripe bunches and went back to his father. However, Adam had died. He lived for a thousand years on the earth. Then he died and returned to the garden.
THE END
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