And when this admonition was worthy of being a cause for his obedience and a deterrent for him from his disobedience, Allah, the Most High, clarified that his heart had hardened. He made it a cause for his advancement, so he said - clarifying in the form of emphasis; for killing, due to what Allah has made sacred for it, and what He has clothed it with of awe, one does not advance upon it except with a great struggle from the soul: "So his soul prompted him"; meaning: that which was not accepted from him; "to kill his brother"; meaning: it urged him with a great urging, and encouraged him, and made it easy for him with what it had of allure, according to its claim; until it overwhelmed his mind; so he obeyed it and submitted; thus he advanced upon it. The realization of the meaning is that whoever conceives the prohibition of sin and the punishment for it, refrains from it; so his action is like that of one who disobeys it. And whoever's soul has dominated him with various doubts in its beautification, his action for it and his advancement upon it becomes like that of one who obeys it; the one enabled by his own soul, after having been disobedient to it and repelled from it. Then he caused from this prompting his saying: "So he killed him"; and he caused from the killing his saying: "So he became"; meaning: he was in every moment "among the losers"; meaning: those deeply entrenched in the description of loss, with the anger of Allah upon him, for his transgression against the corruption of His creation; and the anger of the children of his kind upon him, for his transgression against one of them. And he expressed by the morning; and the intended meaning is all times; for the morning is the place of expecting relief. It was said: he did not know how to kill him; so Iblis imagined to him that he had a bird in his hand; so he crushed his head with a stone; thus he killed him; and Qabil followed him; and he came to Habil while he was sleeping; so he crushed his head with a stone.