ADAM AND EVE IN THE HOLY QURAN
IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE BENEFICENT, THE MERCIFUL
And certainly We created you, then We
fashioned you, then We said to the angels:
Make obeisance to Adam. So they did
obeisance except Iblis (devil); he was not of those
who did obeisance.
He said: What hindered you so that
you did not make obeisance when I
commanded you? He said: I am better than
he: You has created me of fire, while him
You did create of dust.
He said: Then get forth from this
(state), for it does not befit you to behave
proudly therein. Go forth, therefore, surely
you are of the abject ones.
He said: Respite me until the day when
they are raised up.
He said: Surely you are of the respited
ones.
He said: As You has caused me to
remain disappointed I will certainly lie in wait
for them in Your straight path.
Then I will certainly come to them from
before them and from behind them, and from
their righthand side and from their lefthand
side; and You shall not find most of them
thankful.
He said: Get out of this (state),
despised, driven away; whoever of them will
follow you, I will certainly fill hell with you all.
And (We said): O Adam! Dwell you and
your wife in the garden; so eat from where
you desire, but do not go near this tree, for
then you will be of the unjust.
But the Shaitan (devil) made an evil
suggestion to them that he might make
manifest to them what had been hidden from
them of their evil inclinations, and he said:
Your Lord has not forbidden you this tree
except that you may not both become two
angels or that you may (not) become of the
immortals.
And he swore to them both: Most
surely I am a sincere adviser to you.
Then he caused them to fall by
deceit; so when they tasted of the tree,
their evil inclinations became manifest to
them, and they both began to cover
themselves with the leaves of the garden;
and their Lord called out to them: Did I not
forbid you both from that tree and say to
you that the Shaitan (devil) is your open enemy?
They said: Our Lord! We have been
unjust to ourselves, and if You forgive us
not, and have (not) mercy on us, we shall
certainly be of the losers.
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