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CHAP. Til. AL KORAN. 117
provided you food therein : but how little are ye thaukful ! We created
you, and afterwards formed yo\i ; and then said unto the angels, Worship
Adam ; and they all worshipped him, except Eblis, who was not one of
those who worshipped.'* God said U7ito him, What hindered thee from
worshipping Adam, since I had commanded theel He answered, I am
more excellent than he : thou hast created me of fire, and hast created him
of clay. God said. Get thee down therefore from paradise ; for it is not
fit that thou behave thyself pi'oudly therein : get thee hence ; thou shalt he
one of the contemptible. He answered. Give me respite until the day of
resurrection. God said, Yerily thou shalt be one of those who are respited."
The devil said, Because thou hast depraved me, I will lay wait for men in
thy strait way ; then will I come upon them from before, and from behind,
and from their right hands, and from their left ; ^ and thou shalt not find
the greater part of them thankful. God said unto him, Get thee hence,
despised, and driven /ar away : verily whoever of them shall follow thee,
I will surely fill hell with you all : but as for thee, O Adam, dwell thou
and thy wife in paradise ; and eat of the fruit thereof yrhere\ev ye will; but
appi-oach not this tree, lest ye become of the number of the unjust. And
Satan suggested to them both, that he would discover unto them their
n.akedness, which was hidden from them ; and he said, your Lord hath
not forbidden you this tree, ybr any o/Aer reason but lest ye should become
angels, or lest ye become immortal. And he sware unto them, saying,
Verily I am one of those who counsel you aright. And he caused them to
fall through deceit.^ And when they had tasted of the tree, their naked-
ness appeared unto them ; ^ and they began to join together the leaves of
paradise,* to cover themselves. And their Lord called to them, saying,
Did I not forbid you this tree : and did I not say unto you, Verily Satan is
* See chap. 2, p. 5, &c.
• As the time till which the devil is reprieved is not particularly expressed, the
commentators suppose his request was not wholly granted: but agree that he shall
die, as well as other creatures, at the second sound of the trumpet."
' i. e. I will attack them on every side that I shall be able. The other two ways,
viz. from above, and from under their feet, are omitted, say the commentators,
to show that the devil's power is limited.^
e The Mohammedan gospel of Barnabas tells us, that the sentence which God
pronounced on the serpent for introducing the devil into paradise * was, that he
should not only be turned out of paradise, but that he should have his legs cut off
by the angel Michael, with the sword of God ; and that the devil himself, since he
had rendered our first parents unclean, was condemned to eat the excrements of
them and all their posterity ; which two last circumstances I do not remember to
have read elsewhere. The words of the manuscript are these: — Yllamo (Dios) a
la serpiente, y a Michael, aquel que tienne la espada de Dios, y le dixo ; Aquesta sierpe
ts acelerada, echa/a la primera del parayso, y cortule las piernas, y si qvisieri caminar,
drrastrara la vidapov tierra. Yllamo a Satanas, el qual vino riendo, y dixole ; Porque
tu reprobo has enyanado a aquestos, y las has hecho immundos ? Yo quiero que ivda
immundicia suya, y de todos sus hijos, en saliendo de sus cuerpos enire par tu boca, porque
en verdad ellos haran penitencia, y tu quedaras harto de immundicia.
^ Which they had not perceived before ; being clothed, as some say, with light,
or garments of paradise, which fell from thorn on their disobedience. Yahya ima,-
gines their nakedness was hidden by their hair.*
' Which it is said were fig leaves.i"
« Al Beidawi. See the Prelim. Disc. sect. iv. and D'Hcrbelot, Bibl. Orient. Art
£blis. ^ Al Beidawi. * See the notes to chap. 2, p 5. » Idem, i" Idem.