So Allah made it incumbent upon him and his offspring to...

So Allah made it incumbent upon him and his offspring to endure hunger and thirst for thirty days, and He allowed them, out of His kindness, to eat and drink at the nights.”[^4] These noble Hadiths give the people of allusion and the people of heart to understand many points: Although Adam's sin was not like the sins of the others, as it might have been a natural one, or a sin of being inclined to multiplicity, the tree of nature, or of attending to multiplicity of names after the attraction [ jādhibah ] of self-annihilation [ fanā' - i dhātī ], yet it was not expected from one like Adam (' a ) who was Allah's chosen one [ safiyy ] and distinguished by proximity [ qurb ] and self-annihilation.

Therefore, according to the love-zeal [ ghayrat-i hubbī ] of His Sanctified Essence, He announced his disobedience and going astray to all the worlds and on the tongues of all the prophets (' a ). He, the Exalted, said: “And Adam disobeyed his Lord, so he went astray.” [^5] Thus, so much cleaning and purification were needed for him (Adam) and his offspring who were hidden in his loin and (so) participated in the sin, though they did participate (in it) after coming…