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On the other hand; SATAN can systematically not harm or seduce a [ 65 ] believer unless he is obeyed. As for those who wish to tread the path of truth SATAN is a means of manifesting, and bringing to action the possibilities and hidden power of man; for evolution always establishes through contraction and conflicts!

فَتَلَقَّى ءَادَمُ مِن رَّبِّهِ كَلِمَـت فَتَابَ عَلَيْهِ إِنَّهُ هُوَ التَّوَّابُ الرَّحِيمُ(( 37 )) 37- THEN ADAM RECEIVED SOME WORDS OF HIS LORD (BY WHICH HE REPENTED) AND HE TURNED TOWARDS HIM BECAUSE HE IS OFT. RETURNING MOST MERCIFUL. قُلْنَا اهْبِطُواْ مِنْهَا جَمِيعاً فَإِمَّا يَأتِيَنَّكُم مِّنِّى هُدىً فَمَن تَبِعَ هُدَاىَ فَلاَ خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلاَ هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ(( 38 )) 38- WE SAID: ``GET DOWN OUT OF IT, ALTOGETHER.

THERE COMES TO YOU GUIDANCE FROM ME, THEN WHOEVER FOLLOWS MY GUIDANCE, NO FEAR SHALL BE ON THEM, NOR SHALL THEY GRIEVE, وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ وَكَذَّبُواْ بِـَايَـتِنَآ أُولَـئِكَ أَصْحَـبُ النَّارِ هُمْ فِيهَا خَـلِدوُنَ(( 39 )) 39- AS FOR THE UNBELIEVERS WHO BELIE OUR SIGNS, THEY SHALL BE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE, AND THERE THEY SHALL ABIDE FOR EVER. THE COMMENTARY ADAM'S RETURN TO GOD. (VERSE NO.

37.After SATAN'S temptation, and ADAM'S being enticed to evil, he observed that he had done wrong and oppressed his very self and soul. He seriously began to think of compensation and correcting his wrong, and therefore, whole hearted and with utmost sincerity he turned to [ 66 ] God, and asked HIS help through a deep repentance.

God's Mercy and Favour came to his help, and as it is said in QURA"N, he received some words of his Lord, and the Oft-Forgiving Lord turned to him in Mercy and pardoned him. REPENTANCE The Arabic word TAUBA (TRANSLATED TO REPENTANCE) means TURNING, and in QURA"NIC language, it is turning back to God from sinning. The intensive word TAWWAB for God's forgiveness is from the same root, that we have translated; Oft-Returning, (to His servants in mercy and forgiveness.) VERSE NO.

38 Although ADAM'S repentance and return to God from sinning was accepted and God forgave him, the effect and consequences of his wrong deeds stood firm and did not change, and he fell from the GARDEN upon the earth and he fell from a higher state of life to a lower state. God said to them both - ADAM & EVE: ``Get down all of you from the Garden! There shall come to you guidance from ME.

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