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Shall I guide you to the Tree of Eternity and to a kingdom that never decays?” 121. “So they both ate of it (the forbidden tree), then their shameful parts became exposed to them, and they both took to stitching upon themselves leaves of the Garden.

And (thus) Adam disobeyed his Lord, and went astray.” Another name of Iblis is Satan, as the holy Qur’an says: “…They all prostrated except Iblis…” and “Then Satan whispered (evil suggestions) to him…” It was before the rank of prophethood that Adam was whispered evil suggestions to. [^2] Sayyid-ibn-Tawus in a delicate statement says that, at first, Satan came to Adam with the claim of guidance and said: “O Adam!

Shall I guide you…?”, and then he (Satan) caused them both to fall by deceit.[^3] Now, woe unto us! For, Satan comes to us from the beginning with the intention of deceiving us. The Qur’an says: “He said: ‘Then by Your Might I will surely make them live an evil life, all”. [^4] However, Satan had decided to be an enemy of Adam, therefore he did not sit still, and, as the verse says: “Then Satan whispered (evil suggestions) to him, saying: ‘O Adam!

Shall I guide you to the Tree of Eternity and to a kingdom that never decays?” In fact, Satan thought to what the willing of Adam was and he found that he wished an eternal life and reaching to an imperishable power. Therefore, in order to drive him to disobeying the command of Allah, he makes use of these two factors. Finally, what should not be done was done.

The verse in this regard, and that why their heavenly clothes wholly collapsed, says: “So they both ate of it (the forbidden tree), then their shameful parts became exposed to them…” When Adam and Eve saw that event, they immediately made clothes for themselves out of the leaves of the trees of Heaven to cover the shameful parts of their bodies.

The verse continues saying: “…and they both took to stitching upon themselves leaves of the Garden...” Yes, at last, Adam disobeyed his Lord and was deprived from His reward.