Understanding The Torah in the light of The Quran
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The Quran 20:115 informs us that a covenant was taken from Adam before:
Q20:115 mentions the covenant taken from Adam 'before' ..., and the subsequent ayaat relate the command to the angels to prostrate, Iblis' refusal, his enmity, the warning to not to let him get them removed from the garden, and then the temptation that led to Adam's fall.
In Genesis 2:15-17, God had commanded and warned Adam thus:
Genesis 2 15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.'
Our knowledge is supplemented with the information in Surah Ta Ha that:
After erring, Adam prayed that they had 'wronged' or 'put in darkness' their nafs.
The nafs is essential for a flourishing life in The Garden of Eden. On a daily basis, our nafs is removed in sleep, and returned when we awake. Upon death, the nafs is permanently removed. The greatest losers in the Hereafter will be the ones who will permanently lose their nafs, and be put in Hell. So, when his Lord told him he will surely die, it was a true statement, in that Adam could no longer remain in the Garden while his nafs was in such a state of darkness. They were naturally expelled from The Garden.
All sins are against our own nafs, increasing it in wrong / injustice / darkness. Doing good, repenting, and reforming, removes some of the wrongs / injustice / darknesses.
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