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| 12. God said, `What prevented thee from submitting when I commanded thee ?' He said, `I am better than he. Thou hast created me of fire while him hast thou created of clay.' 13. God said, `Then go down hence; it is not for thee to be arrogant here. Get out; thou art certainly of those who are abased.' 14. He said, `Respite me till the day when they will be raised up.' 15. God said, `Thou art of those who are respited.' 16. He said, `Now, since Thou hast adjudge me to be erring, I will assuredly lie in wait for them on Thy straight path; 17. `Then will I surely come upon them from before them and from behind them and from their right and from their left, and Thou wilt not find most of them to be grateful. 18. God said, `Get out hence, despised and banished. Whosoever of them shall follow thee, I will surely fill Hell with you all;' 19. `O Adam ! dwell thou and thy wife in the Garden and eat therefrom wherever you will, but approach not this tree lest you be among the wrongdoers. 20. But satan made evil suggestions to them so that he might make known to them what was hidden from them of their shame and said, `Your Lord has only forbidden you this tree, lest you become angels or lest you become of the immortals.' 21. And he swore to them, saying, `Surely I am a sincere counsellor unto you.' 22. So he caused them to fall into disobedience by deceit. And when they tasted of the tree, their shame became manifest to them and they both began to cover themselves with the leaves of the Gardens. And their Lord called them, saying, `Did I not forbid you that tree and tell you, verily Satan is to you an open enemy ?' |
