The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 532
CH. 7 AL-A'RĀF PT. 8 سكتة قَالَا رَبَّنَا ظَلَمْنَا أَنْفُسَنَا وَإِن لَّمْ They said, “Our Lord we. 24 have wronged ourselves; and if تَغْفِرُ لَنَا وَتَرْحَمْنَا لَنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ Thou forgive us not and have not mercy on us, we shall surely be of the lost. '925 الْخُسِرِينَ قَالَ اهْبِطُوا بَعْضُكُمْ لِبَعْضٍ عَدُوٌّ He said, "Go forth, some of. 25 E you being enemies of others. And for you there is an abode وَلَكُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ مُسْتَقَرٌّ وَمَتَاعٌ إِلى حين on the earth and a provision for a time. '926 قَالَ فِيهَا تَحْيَوْنَ وَفِيْهَا تَمُوتُونَ وَمِنْهَا He said, “Therein shall you. 26 live, and therein shall you die, and therefrom shall you be brought forth. '927 & "2:38. 2:37, 39; 20:124. 20:56; 71:18-19. Adam's error lay in taking this man-devil for a well-wisher, although God had warned him against having anything to do with him. 925. Commentary: Adam did not long remain in error. He soon realized his mistake and hastened to turn to God in repentance. 926. Commentary: The verse shows that Adam was commanded to migrate from the land of his birth because enmity and hatred had sprung up between different members of his community. This constitutes a further evidence of the fact that "the garden" which Adam was bidden to leave was not the Heaven or Paradise of the Quran, because, as the Quran itself tells us, Paradise is a place from which 972 تُخْرَجُونَ nobody is ever turned out (15:49), nor can Satan deceive or even approach anyone there. It appears that Adam migrated from Mesopotamia, the land of his birth, to a neighbouring land. The migration was perhaps a returned to his native land not long temporary one, and Adam may have after. Indeed, the words, a provision for a time, contain a veiled hint at the migration being a temporary one. 927. Commentary: Adam is warned in this verse to be careful in future; for it was in his native land that he was now to live forever. Taken in the general sense, the verse also hints that no human being can ascend into the heavens with his physical body. Man must live and die on the earth.