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wonderful form. And knowledge,
and the Garden and Hawa, the
most beautiful, loving companion.
“
Nothing
,” he thought, “
Would be
better, than praising Allah and
thanking him forever.
”
They were curious now, and time
and again allowed themselves to
explore that part of the garden
where the mysterious tree stood.
The more they saw the tree, the
more tempted they were, to taste its
fruit and then maybe live forever.
At last Adam [a] plucked a fruit and
Hawwa [a] willingly shared it with
him. And so Adam [a] and Hawwa
[a] both ate the fruit. They found it
delicious, so delicious in fact, that
they had never tasted anything
before quite like that.
But no sooner had they finished
eating the forbidden fruit, they sud-
denly realised their error. They had
