What Adam and Eve said when they realized that they disobeyed Allah?
The Forgiveness has to be a direct process between you and your Creator without any in the middle of
Allah is the Relenting, the Merciful, the One Who overlooks misdeeds
The Golden words of Adam that became a way for him and his progeny to repentance
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Many people do not know Allah. This series is an attempt to help them in order to know their Creator.
Verses 7:23-25 of the Noble Quran talk about:
1) Did Allah forgive Adam and Eve?
2) What Adam and Eve said when they realized that they disobeyed Allah?
3) The Golden words of Adam that became a way for him and his progeny to repentance,
4) Allah is the Relenting, the Merciful, the One Who overlooks misdeeds and
5) The Golden words of Adam that became a way for him and his progeny to repentance.
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In the previous article, Satan did lead both Adam and Eve on, to eat from the tree with lies until they ate from it. Then their nakedness was manifest to them and they began out of shame to hide by heaping on themselves some of the leaves of the Garden. And Allah called them: O Adam and Eve, saying: Did I not forbid you from that tree? Verily Satan is a manifest enemy to you? Then what Adam and Eve said when they realized that they disobeyed Allah?
The meaning of verse 7:23
They said, ‘Our Lord, we have wronged ourselves, by our act of disobedience, we have harmed ourselves by transgressing, and if You do not forgive us, if You do not overlook our transgression and have not mercy on us by not punishing us, surely we are of the lost! We shall be of those duped into receiving punishment.
Allah, the Merciful forgave them and said:
The meaning of verse 7:24
He said: Go down from hence, that is, Adam and Eve, with all those you comprise of your seed, each of you, each seed, an enemy to the other, on account of the wrong each does to the another. There will be for you on earth an abode, a place of settlement, and enjoyment for a while’, until your terms of life are fulfilled. In other words, There will be for you on earth a habitation, a dwelling and shelter and provision for a while until death.
The meaning of verse 7:25
Allah said: ‘There, that is, on earth, you shall live, and there you shall die, and from there you shall be brought forth’, through the Resurrection on the Day of Judgment.
How Did Allah forgive both Adam and Eve?
This was the first sin of mankind.
Adam did not know what to do? He did not know how to ask Allah for forgiveness.
Of course, Allah, the Merciful, knew that.
Adam received certain words from Allah, with which He inspired him.
That words came to Adam, and these were: we have wronged ourselves with which Adam and Eve supplicated, and Allah relented to them, that is, Allah accepted their repentance; He forgave them; truly Allah is the Relenting, to His servants, the Merciful, to them. He is the One Who overlooks misdeeds.
That words of Adam became a way for him and his progeny to repentance.
This story tells us how to ask our Creator for forgiveness.
The process of forgiveness should go directly between you and your Creator without any “in-between”. Allah is the Forgiver, the Relenting, and the Merciful, and you are the sinful.
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Verses 7:23-25in different English translations of the meanings of Arabic Quran:
QARIB:
23) Both replied: ‘lord, we have harmed ourselves. if you do not forgive us and have mercy on us, we shall surely be among the lost. ‘
24) He said: ‘descend, each of you an enemy to each other. the earth will be a dwelling place for you and an enjoyment for a time.
25) He said: ‘there you shall live and there you shall die, and from there you shall emerge. ‘
SHAKIR:
23) They said: our lord! we have been unjust to ourselves, and if thou forgive us not, and have (not) mercy on us, we shall certainly be of the losers
24) He said: get forth, some of you, the enemies of others, and there is for you in the earth an abode and a provision for a time
25) He (also) said: therein shall you live, and therein shall you die, and from it shall you be raised
PICKTHAL:
23) They said: our lord! we have wronged ourselves. if thou forgive us not and have not mercy on us, surely we are of the lost!
24) He said: go down (from hence), one of you a foe unto the other. there will be for you on earth a habitation and provision for a while.
25) He said: there shall ye live, and there shall ye die, and thence shall ye be brought forth.
YUSUFALI:
23) They said: “our lord! we have wronged our own souls: if thou forgive us not and bestow not upon us thy mercy, we shall certainly be lost.”
24) (Allah) said: “get ye down. with enmity between yourselves. on earth will be your dwelling-place and your means of livelihood,- for a time.”
25) He said: “therein shall ye live, and therein shall ye die; but from it shall ye be taken out (at last).”
And the verse 2:37 shows how did Allah forgive both Adam and Eve?
QARIB:
then Adam received words from his lord, and his lord relented towards him. he is the receiver of repentance, the merciful.
SHAKIR:
then Adam received (some) words from his lord, so he turned to him mercifully; surely he is oft-returning (to mercy), the merciful
PICKTHAL:
then Adam received from his lord words (of revelation), and he relented toward him. lo! he is the relenting, the merciful.
YUSUFALI:
then learnt Adam from his lord words of inspiration, and his lord turned towards him; for he is oft-returning, most merciful.