the earth as eyeopening evidence: and I
consider thee indeed, O Pharaoh, to be
one doomed to destruction!’ So he
resolved to remove them from the face
of the earth: but We did drown him and
all who were with him’’(Sura 17:102–
103).
No one is guilty of anyone else’s sin:
‘‘Every soul draws the meed of its acts
on none but itself: no bearer of burdens
can bear the burden of another’’(Sura
6:164).
Cain is guilty of every drop of blood
on earth:
‘‘Whenever a person is murdered
unjustly, there is a share of the burden
of that crime on the first son of Adam,
for he [Cain] was the first to start the
