not be thankful unto Thee!" And We said: "Go forth despised and expelled; whosoever follows thee, I will surely fill hell with you altogether. But, Adam, dwell thou and thy wife in Paradise and eat from whatever you will, but draw not nigh unto this tree, or ye will be of the unjust."
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But Satan whispered to them to display to them what was kept back from them of their shame, and he said: "Your Lord has only forbidden you this tree lest you should be twain angels, or should become of the immortals"; and he swore to them both: "Verily, I am unto you a sincere adviser"; and he beguiled them by deceit, and when they twain tasted of the tree, their shame was shown to them, and they began to stitch upon themselves the leaves of the garden. And their Lord called, unto them, "Did I not forbid you from that tree there, and say to you, 'Verily Satan is to you an open foe'?" They answered, "O, our Lord! we have wronged ourselves—and if Thou dost not forgive us and have mercy on us, we shall surely be of those who are lost!" We said, "Go ye down, one of you to the other a foe; but for you in the earth there is an abode, and a provision for a season. Therein shall ye live and therein shall ye die, from it shall ye be brought forth."
MOHAMMED'S MISSION
By the wise Koran, verily thou art of the apostles upon a right way. The revelation of the mighty, the merciful! That thou mayest
