Then exalted be Allah, the True King! And hasten not (O Muhammad) with the Qur'an ere its revelation hath been perfected unto thee, and say: My Lord! Increase me in knowledge

And verily We made a covenant of old with Adam, but he forgot, and We found no constancy in him

And when We said unto the angels: Fall prostrate before Adam, they fell prostrate (all) save Iblis; he refused

Therefor we said: O Adam! This is an enemy unto thee and unto thy wife, so let him not drive you both out of the Garden so that thou come to toil

It is (vouchsafed) unto thee that thou hungerest not therein nor art naked

And that thou thirstest not therein nor art exposed to the sun's heat

But the devil whispered to him, saying: O Adam! Shall I show thee the tree of immortality and power that wasteth not away

Then they twain ate thereof, so that their shame became apparent unto them, and they began to hide by heaping on themselves some of the leaves of the Garden. And Adam disobeyed his Lord, so went astray

Then his Lord chose him, and relented toward him, and guided him

He said: Go down hence, both of you, one of you a foe unto the other. But when there come unto you from Me a guidance, then whoso followeth My guidance, he will not go astray nor come to grief

But he who turneth away from remembrance of Me, his will be a narrow life, and I shall bring him blind to the assembly on the Day of Resurrection

He will say: My Lord! Wherefor hast Thou gathered me (hither) blind, when I was wont to see