Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)

or it may evoke remembrance for them.
114 So exalted is Allah, the True Sovereign.
Do not hasten with the Qur’ān
before its revelation is completed for you,
and say, ‘My Lord! Increase me in knowledge.’

115 Certainly We had enjoined Adam earlier;
but he forgot,
and We did not find any resoluteness in him.
116 When We said to the angels,
‘Prostrate before Adam,’
they prostrated, but not Iblis:
he refused.
117 We said, ‘O Adam!
This is indeed an enemy of yours and your mate’s.
So do not let him expel you from paradise,
or you will be miserable.
118 Indeed you will neither be hungry in it nor naked.
119 Indeed you will neither be thirsty in it,
nor suffer from the sun.’
120 Then Satan tempted him.
He said, ‘O Adam!
Shall I show you the tree of immortality,
and an imperishable kingdom?’
121 So they both ate of it,
and their nakedness became evident to them,
and they began to stitch over themselves
with the leaves of paradise.
Adam disobeyed his Lord,
and went amiss.

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Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation, Islamic College for Advance Studies Press (ICAS), London (Distributed by The Centre for Translation of the Holy Qur’ān, Qom, Iran), Consulted online at “Quran Archive - Texts and Studies on the Quran” on 09 May. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=478