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HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY 
 PHILADELPHIA 
 
 IBLIS IN 
 PARADISE 
 
 A STORY OF 
 THE TEMPTATION 
 
 BY 
 
 GEORGE ROE 
 
Copyright, 1908 
 By HOWARD E. ALTEMUS 
 
To the many friends which 
 my translation of Omar Khayyam 
 has won for me, and who, by 
 their cordial appreciation of my 
 first endeavor, have encouraged 
 me to make another venture in 
 a field somewhat similar, the fol- 
 lowing pages are dedicated. 
 
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" Ere yet Creation's Dawn had shed 
 
 its light 
 O'er dreary Chaos and the Realms 
 
 of Night, 
 The Pen unmoved by good and 
 
 evil wrote ; 
 
 Nor grief can change nor endless 
 toil rewrite/' 
 
 Omar Khayyam, 
 Ouseley MS., quatrain 31. 
 
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 FOREWORD 
 
 THE following story, 
 though original in form and 
 in some of its details, is for 
 the most part founded upon 
 well known Oriental le- 
 gends, the sources of which 
 are widely separated in point 
 of time and locality. 
 
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 The fatalistic doctrine of 
 the Pen and the Tablet, the 
 legend of the hole in Mount 
 Kaf through which the sun 
 shines at the hour of False 
 Dawn, and the story of the 
 hewing of the limbs from 
 the serpent, are daily be- 
 coming familiar to the 
 Western world; the account 
 of the expulsion of Iblis 
 from Heaven is almost 
 identical with that of the 
 
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gur'an; the version of the 
 creation of Adam and Eve 
 is founded upon a very an- 
 cient Hindu legend, and 
 the cause of their expulsion 
 from the Garden is common 
 to the Book of Genesis and 
 the gur'an. 
 
 GEORGE ROE 
 
 SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 
 
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 IBLIS IN PARADISE 
 
 A STORY OF THE TEMP- 
 TATION 
 
 Now, long before the 
 birth of Time, when the 
 Universe was enveloped in 
 the mists of Azal, the Pen 
 wrote upon the Tablet of 
 Fate all those things which, 
 

 through the countless ages 
 of eternity, should surely 
 come to pass. 
 
 And when the Pen had 
 made an end of writing, 
 Khuda turned His face 
 upon the realms of Night 
 and Chaos, and the light 
 shone upon the darkness. 
 And Khuda separated the 
 light from the darkness, 
 and called the light Day, 
 and the darkness He called 
 
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 Night. And when He had 
 gathered the light from the 
 darkness, Time was born; 
 and the evening and the 
 morning were the first day. 
 Then Khuda gathered 
 together the waters, and the 
 dry land appeared. And He 
 looked upon the land and 
 the seas and the rivers, and 
 saw that they were fair, 
 and He called them Earth, 
 and all around them He 
 
raised up the mighty walls 
 of Mount Kaf, whose snow- 
 capped pinnacles touched 
 the heavens, so that no man 
 may pass beyond them. 
 
 And when He had fin- 
 ished making the earth, He 
 set the sky in the vault of 
 Heaven, and yoked the 
 fiery horses of the sun, and 
 called the sun Khurshyd, 
 and bade him mount his 
 chariot of fire, and ap- 
 
pointed him Lord of the 
 Day. And He set Zuhal 
 and Mushtari and Parwin, 
 and all the shining hosts of 
 the stars in the firmament, 
 and bade them rule the 
 Night. 
 
 Then He turned to the 
 moon and said, " Thy name 
 shall be Mah, for thou shalt 
 be the Measurer, and thou 
 shalt pass from the Night 
 into the Day , and back again 
 
from the Day shalt pass into 
 the Night; and thou shalt 
 keep a record of the months, 
 and the seasons, until the 
 Day of Shamar, when the 
 sky shall be rent asunder 
 and the sun shall be dark- 
 ened." 
 
 Now when Khuda had 
 finished making the heav- 
 ens, He looked again upon 
 the earth, and saw that it 
 was naked; therefore, He 
 
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clothed it with verdure and 
 with trees and with flowers. 
 And when the trees spread 
 out their leaves and drank 
 the dews of Heaven, prais- 
 ing the Lord silently, and 
 the grasses raised their heads 
 in joy, and the winds car- 
 ried the odors of the flowers 
 to Heaven, Khuda looked 
 upon His work, and saw 
 that it was good. 
 
 But, after a little while, 
 
when the seeds fell and the 
 young trees grew up, be- 
 hold the parent trees still 
 spread out their leaves and 
 drank in the sunlight and 
 the pearly drops of dew, 
 robbing their own young; 
 and they set their roots more 
 firmly in the ground that 
 they might eat of the food 
 of the earth, depriving their 
 own offspring. 
 
 But Khuda beheld them, 
 
and said, "Lo, these be 
 greedy creatures that I have 
 put upon the earth! All 
 that I have given them they 
 would seize to satisfy their 
 selfish hunger, nor will they 
 share even with the children 
 that spring from themselves. 
 Now, therefore, shall I place 
 upon the earth nobler crea- 
 tures, who shall guard and 
 protect their young, and 
 love and care for the off- 
 
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 spring whom I shall give to 
 them." 
 
 Thus did He speak, and 
 at His Word were born the 
 fishes of the sea, and the 
 creeping things of the earth, 
 and the birds of the air, and 
 the beasts of the field. And 
 they brought forth their 
 young, and loved them and 
 cherished them, even as 
 Khuda had spoken. So 
 Khuda looked upon the 
 
work that He had done, and 
 saw that it was good. 
 
 But in a little while, when 
 again He looked upon the 
 earth, He saw that the crea- 
 tures to whom He had given 
 it did but eat and drink, gi 
 and bring forth their young, 
 and die. Never did they 
 raise their eyes to the vault 
 of Heaven, seeking to read 
 the mystery of the stars ; nor 
 did they strive to know 
 
aught of the secrets of the 
 earth, but followed foolish- 
 ly the thing that was before 
 their eyes. 
 
 Then He took counsel 
 with His heart and said, 
 "I will now make a being 
 in my own image, and he 
 shall have dominion over 
 the earth, and he shall be 
 lord over the beasts of the 
 field; and the seas and the 
 rivers shall be his servants; 
 
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yea, the very earth, herself, 
 shall be his handmaiden, 
 and shall bring forth new 
 fruits and strange flowers 
 and abundant harvests un- 
 der the cunning of his hand. 
 And he shall excel in wis- 
 dom, and shall read that 
 which he seeth not, by the 
 light of that which his eyes 
 have seen. And I will give 
 him power, so that when he 
 shall have placed two things 
 
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 together, behold a third 
 thing shall be clear before 
 him." 
 
 Then Khuda called to 
 the angels Gabriel and 
 Michael and Israfil and 
 Azrail, saying, " Go ye forth 
 to the earth, and bring 
 hither seven kinds of the 
 dust thereof and lay it be- 
 fore me." 
 
 And when the angels re- 
 turned with the dust of 
 
 
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earth, as the Lord had com- 
 manded, He looked upon it 
 and saw that it contained 
 as many colors as there are 
 now races among mankind. 
 Then He took of that 
 which Azrail had brought, 
 and in the hollow of His 
 hand He took of the waters 
 of Kusar to moisten it 
 therewith; and thus did He 
 speak : " From the earth and 
 the sky will I take senses 
 
and powers like unto my 
 own, and breathe them into 
 this clay, and it shall live." 
 Then he took Prudence, 
 and Reason, and Fore- 
 thought, Passion that leaps 
 and consumes like a flame, 
 and Will that can quench 
 passion as water quenches 
 fire, and these He breathed 
 into the lifeless clay, and lo, 
 a living man stood before 
 Him. 
 
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^y And He called the man 
 Jj|> Adam, and made him lord 
 over the earth, even as He 
 s had spoken. 
 || Then he placed Adam in 
 a beautiful garden where 
 trees were watered by sweet 
 streams, and the garden was 
 filled with the fragrance of 
 the flowers, and the music 
 of the bulbuls rang out from 
 the shady groves. 
 
 But Adam wandered 
 
alone in the garden, and the 
 beasts over whom he was 
 lord understood him not, 
 and the beautiful flowers 
 were silent, and the notes of 
 the bulbul only made heavy 
 his heart. So Khuda saw 
 his loneliness, and knew that 
 he needed a companion to 
 be with him in the garden. 
 Therefore, Khuda cast 
 Adam into a deep sleep, 
 and, while he was yet sleep- 
 
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ing, took from his left side 
 a rib, and considered how 
 He should breathe life into 
 it in order that He might 
 give it a separate soul and 
 a new form that should be 
 the same and yet not the 
 same. But when Khuda 
 had looked again for the 
 attributes which He had 
 used in the creation of 
 Adam, behold He found 
 that they were well-nigh 
 
exhausted in giving life to 
 the man whom He had said 
 should be lord over all the 
 earth. So he took, in their 
 stead, the gentle beauty of 
 a calm sky, and the rest- 
 lessness of the sea; and the 
 pink blush of the budding 
 rose, and the whiteness of 
 the lily; and the straight- 
 ness of an arrow, and the 
 subtlety of a serpent; and 
 the softness of the swan's 
 
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breast, and the hardness of 
 porphyry; and the gentle- 
 ness of the dove, and the 
 fierceness of the tiger ; and 
 the heat of fire, and the 
 cold of snow; and He 
 breathed them into the rib, 
 and lo, a living woman 
 stood before Him. 
 
 Then Khuda called 
 Adam and said, " O Adam, 
 I saw that thou wert indeed 
 lonely, therefore have I 
 
 
made this woman to be a 
 companion for thee; take 
 her now with thee into the 
 garden, and rejoice." 
 
 And Adam answered the 
 Lord, saying, "O Khuda, 
 Thou art indeed thrice 
 blessed: first for Thy knowl- 
 edge, which knew the wants 
 of my heart ere I, myself, 
 could understand them; 
 and again, because of Thy 
 power, which can make a 
 
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 creature more graceful than 
 the cypress, whose eyes are 
 brighter than stars in the 
 midnight sky, and whose 
 smile is like the budding of 
 a new-born rose; and yet 
 again art Thou blessed for 
 the great love that could 
 yield to me a creature fairer 
 than my soul ever yet im- 
 agined, even in the witchery 
 of dreams. " 
 
 And Khuda said, "Take 
 
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 her, and give her all that 
 I have made for thee in the 
 garden, for all is thine; but 
 of the fruit of the tree of 
 knowledge ye shall not eat, 
 for that fruit is forbidden 
 unto you." 
 
 Then Adam took the 
 woman by the hand and led 
 her into the garden. 
 
 Now when Khuda had 
 thus crowned the work of 
 creation, He called all the 
 
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angels together and said 
 unto them, "Behold now I 
 have made man in my own 
 image, and with attributes 
 like unto mine own; there- 
 fore, inasmuch as he is like 
 unto me, ye shall bow down 
 before him." 
 
 Then Michael and Ga- 
 briel and Israfil bowed down 
 before Adam, for they knew 
 that he was made in the 
 image of the Lord; and 
 
 
 
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 Azrail also bowed, for he 
 heard the voice of Khuda 
 and knew not that the Pen 
 had already written that 
 he should cut the slender 
 thread on which hangs the 
 frail and fevered life of man. 
 And all the mighty hosts 
 of Heaven looked upon 
 Adam, and they bowed 
 down before him, all save 
 Iblis and those who were 
 with him. But Iblis raised 
 
 
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his head in anger, and his 
 brow darkened with pride, 
 and his eyes shone with the 
 red coals of his rebellious 
 heart, and he answered the 
 Lord: 
 
 " O Khuda, what is man 
 that we should bow down 
 before him ? Hast not Thou 
 created us of living fire, and 
 man of the dust of the earth, 
 and shall we indeed bow 
 down to him ? Nay, Lord, 
 
know Thou that I, who am 
 an angel of light, will never 
 bow myself down before this 
 breathing image of clay!' 1 
 
 And Khuda answered 
 Iblis, " Get thee hence, thou 
 rebellious one, or thou shalt 
 be driven forth with stones 
 of fire, for upon thy head 
 shall rest a curse until the 
 day of judgment." 
 
 But Iblis besought Khu- 
 da, saying, "Give me a 
 
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 respite until the day of 
 judgment." 
 
 And Khuda answered 
 him, saying, "Verily, thou 
 shalt be of those whom I 
 shall respite until the day 
 of the time that I have ap- 
 pointed." 
 
 Now when Iblis knew 
 that Khuda had respited 
 him by the Word of the 
 Lord that cannot be broken, 
 his anger burst out anew 
 
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 and venom gushed from his 
 lips. "Because," he said, 
 "Thou hast seduced me to 
 disobedience with a com- 
 mand that Thou knewest I 
 would not obey, therefore 
 shall I seduce to disobedi- 
 ence the man whom Thou 
 hast created. And I shall 
 await the coming of men 
 yet unborn, and shall com- 
 pass them about from the 
 right hand to the left ; and 
 
 
both in their sight and when 
 they see me not, shall I 
 seek to tempt them unto 
 evil; and I will make them 
 to set Thy command at 
 naught, in order that I may 
 destroy their souls." 
 
 Then Iblis and those who 
 were with him fled from 
 the presence of the Lord. 
 
 But when Iblis sought to 
 enter the garden, he could 
 not find the right path, for 
 
whichever way he turned 
 his steps, the topless walls 
 of Mount Kaf towered 
 above him. Then he cried 
 out to the mountains, but 
 they looked down upon him 
 in silence; and he besought 
 the trees to tell him the way, 
 but they answered him not; 
 and he besought the beasts 
 of the field, but they would 
 not hear him, for the great 
 mountains stood between. 
 
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At length, however, it 
 came to pass that, as he cried 
 out in anger and despair, he 
 came to that hole in the 
 mountain through which 
 the sun shineth at the hour 
 of Subhi Kazim, or False 
 Dawn, even unto this day. 
 And as he was about to pass 
 by, it chanced that the ser- 
 pent lay sleeping in the 
 shadow and was awakened 
 by his voice. 
 
And the serpent an- 
 swered the voice, saying, 
 " If I shall guide thee to the 
 place where thou shalt find 
 the man and the woman, 
 what wilt thou give me?" 
 
 And Iblis said, "I will 
 give thee wisdom greater 
 than all the beasts of the 
 field, and I will place a 
 dagger in thy mouth so that 
 when thou strikest thine 
 enemy he shall surely die." 
 
He came to the passage in the mountain.' 
 

 
 So the serpent hearkened 
 unto the voice of the evil 
 one and led him through 
 the passage in the side of 
 the mountain, to the place 
 where Adam lay sleeping, 
 with the head of his wife, 
 Eve, resting upon his shoul- 
 der. Then Iblis looked 
 upon the pair, and for a 
 moment his heart smote 
 him, but when he remem- 
 bered all the loss he had suf- 
 
fered because of them, he 
 hardened his heart, and 
 showed himself to the wom- 
 an in a dream. 
 
 And it befel that while 
 Eve yet slept upon the bosom 
 of her husband, she saw as 
 in a vision a stranger of 
 noble presence standing 
 beside her. His form was 
 tall and strong, and when 
 he moved, his mien was 
 exceeding graceful; ring- 
 
 
lets of the night fell from 
 a brow that was like the 
 morning, and in his burning 
 eyes the woman saw the 
 darkling glow of a deep 
 fire, the meaning whereof 
 she knew not. 
 
 Now when Eve remem- 
 bered the clear glance of 
 her husband, wherein was no 
 guile nor yet knowledge, 
 and when she thought how 
 easily she could read it, she 
 
 
longed the more to know 
 what thoughts lay hidden in 
 the dark gaze of the beau- 
 tiful stranger. And Iblis 
 smiled, for he saw all her 
 desires as if they were in- 
 scriptions of gold on tablets 
 of alabaster, and his smile 
 was sweet and winsome; 
 and the mystery of his gaze 
 held the eyes of the woman 
 bound upon his own. 
 Then did the evil one 
 
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open his mouth, and he 
 spake in words that sounded 
 soft as the song of the west 
 wind among the tree tops 
 at evening, and clear as the 
 voice of the stream rippling 
 through the garden, and 
 these were the words that 
 he spake: 
 
 " O fairest of all that the 
 Lord God has made, behold 
 the music of thy beauty has 
 ascended to the heights of 
 
Heaven itself, and from 
 Heaven I have come to look 
 upon thee. Much have I 
 heard said of thee, and much 
 have I dreamed, but of a 
 surety not a tithe of the 
 marvel of thy loveliness was 
 ever told to me by word or 
 vision, nor could I, now, 
 seeing thee, paint for an- 
 other a faithful picture of 
 the beauty that mine eyes 
 at last behold." 
 
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He was silent, as if to 
 let his gaze make his heart 
 drunken with the sight of 
 her, and then, seeing the 
 rosy blush of pleasure bud- 
 ding and blooming the 
 cheek of the first woman, 
 spake again: 
 
 "But in Heaven they 
 say that one thing dost thou 
 need to make thy beauty 
 perfect. Though the light 
 of love shineth in thine 
 
 
eyes, the light of knowledge 
 is not there, and it is told 
 by the angels that thou hast 
 been forbidden to eat of the 
 fruit which bringeth knowl- 
 edge to all who taste. And 
 so, O thou fairest one, I be- 
 seech thee, touch it not, for 
 didst thou but taste of that 
 fruit, thy beauty must sure- 
 ly unleash the hounds of 
 strife within the very gate 
 of Heaven." 
 
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 Thus spake the evil one, 
 and with such honeyed 
 words he withdrew to wait 
 the harvest of that his 
 tongue had sown. 
 
 Now when, at dawn's 
 first smile, our mother Eve 
 awoke, she turned her gaze 
 upon the man who still be- 
 side her lay sleeping and, 
 though she loved him much, 
 her thoughts returned to 
 dwell unbidden on the 
 
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stranger of her dreams, and 
 when at last the fingers of 
 sleep had been lifted from 
 her husband's eyes and she, 
 smiling, greeted him with 
 words of love, even still her 
 thoughts were all upon the 
 vanished vision of the night. 
 But Adam, knowing 
 naught of this, arose and 
 bathed his limbs in the cool 
 water of the stream that 
 rippled, singing, past his 
 
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leafy couch. Then he rose 
 from the crystal waters and, 
 with the flush of strength 
 upon his cheeks, set out to 
 gather fruit for the morning 
 meal, that Eve might break 
 her fast. 
 
 But when he returned, 
 his arms laden with the 
 sweetest fruits of the gar- 
 den, the woman was think- 
 ing of the forbidden tree, and 
 wishing that in her eyes the 
 
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light of knowledge might 
 shine beside the light of 
 love ; so the fruit that Adam 
 brought seemed to her taste- 
 less, and the perfume of the 
 morning flowers bore her 
 no joy. Yet she spoke not 
 to her husband of the for- 
 bidden tree, and tried, with 
 light words of other things, 
 to drive away the memory 
 of the words that Iblis had 
 Uttered in her dream. 
 
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 Now after a few days, it 
 came to pass that Adam 
 sought out Khuda in the 
 cool of the morning, and 
 thus did he speak: 
 
 "O Khuda, Thou art 
 indeed almighty, all-wise 
 and all-bountiful, and Thou 
 wilt hear the prayer of Thy 
 servant who stands before 
 Thee. For lo, the woman 
 whom Thou gavest me, her 
 eyes were brighter than the 
 
stars and her voice was softer 
 than the cooing of the 
 wood-pigeon, but alas when 
 I desire to think in silence, 
 naught will stay the music 
 of her tongue, and when I 
 bring the fairest flowers and 
 sweetest fruits of the garden 
 as a love offering, behold 
 they are others than she 
 would have chosen, and I 
 know not how to please her. 
 Now, therefore, I pray Thee 
 
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 take her from me that my 
 soul may have peace." 
 
 So Khuda did as Adam 
 desired and the man was 
 left alone in the garden. 
 
 But ere many days, Adam 
 again sought out Khuda 
 and said: 
 
 "O Thou Mighty One, 
 have patience with thy 
 servant, for great is his woe ; 
 for behold, when I came to 
 Thee and besought Thee to 
 
take away the woman, Thou 
 didst grant my request, and 
 I was exceeding glad and 
 for a few hours I rejoiced 
 to sit in peace. But after 
 a little while, when I had 
 wrested a secret from the 
 stars, I turned and found 
 none to whom I might 
 speak of my victory. And 
 at night, when I lay down 
 in my loneliness, I stretched 
 out my hand but, instead of 
 
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 the soft nest of a warm bo- 
 som, naught felt I save the 
 hardness of the cold ground. 
 Now, therefore, I pray 
 Thee, return to me the 
 woman whom Thou hast 
 taken, for this my loneli- 
 ness is greater than I can 
 bear." 
 
 And again Khuda heark- 
 ened unto the voice of the 
 man and the woman re- 
 turned to the garden. 
 
Now it came to pass that 
 after this, as Khuda was 
 walking in the shade of the 
 trees, He saw Adam sitting 
 alone upon the bank of a 
 stream with his head bent 
 upon his hands like one in 
 great tribulation; therefore, 
 He called to him, saying: 
 
 " O Adam, why grievest 
 thou? Tell me of thy trou- 
 bles, that I may help thee." 
 So Adam raised his head, 
 
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"He saw Adam sitting alone on the bank." 
 
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 JJI^ eyes while he answered: 
 
 "O Khuda, even though 
 Thou art almighty, I wist 
 not how even Thou canst 
 succor me, for behold, the 
 woman whom Thou gavest 
 me I cannot live with her, 
 and without her I cannot 
 live." 
 
 And Khuda said unto 
 Adam : " Where is now the 
 woman?" And Adam re- 
 
plied: "She sitteth in the 
 shade and maketh herself 
 raiment of the leaves of the 
 trees." 
 
 But Khuda asked of 
 Adam: "Where, then, is 
 the raiment of innocence 
 which I gave ye, and why 
 do ye need to make for 
 yourselves robes of the 
 leaves of the trees?" 
 
 But the man hung his 
 head and answered nothing, 
 
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for he had eaten of the tree 
 of knowledge and, when he 
 had tasted its fruit, behold 
 the robe of innocence had 
 fallen away from him and 
 he knew that he was naked. 
 
 Then Khuda charged 
 Adam saying: "Did I not 
 forbid thee to eat of the 
 fruit of the tree of knowl- 
 edge? Why, then, hast 
 thou disobeyed me?" 
 
 And Adam lifted up his 
 
voice, though his head was 
 still bent in shame, and an- 
 swered Khuda, saying: 
 
 "O Thou who art all- 
 merciful, Thou canst read 
 my heart and Thou know- 
 est its weaknesses. Behold, 
 when Thou didst return to 
 me the woman, my heart 
 yearned for her, and my 
 hand was ready to do her 
 bidding. But when she be- 
 sought me that I might 
 
bring her of the fruit of the 
 tree of knowledge, I denied 
 her, for I remembered that 
 Thou hadst forbidden us to 
 eat thereof. But the woman 
 still besought me that Thou 
 hadst not forbidden us to 
 pluck the fruit, only hadst 
 Thou forbidden us to taste 
 of it. Therefore, to satisfy 
 her, did I bring a single 
 fruit from the tree and 
 placed it in her hand. And 
 
she toyed with the fruit, 
 yet tasted not, for she, 
 too, remembered Thy com- 
 mand. But suddenly, I 
 know not why, she raised 
 it to her lips and ere I could 
 stay her hand, she had eaten 
 thereof. And it came to 
 pass that when, in fear 
 thereat, I turned my face 
 to hers, I saw a new light 
 shining in her eyes, for be- 
 hold the light of knowledge 
 
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sate beside the light of love 
 upon the throne of her heart. 
 Then I stretched out my 
 hand and drew her toward 
 me and I drank from her 
 eyes the drugged draught 
 of her new beauty; but 
 while I held her to my 
 bosom, and her smiling lips 
 showed the pearly whiteness 
 of her teeth she put the fruit 
 unto my mouth, and I ate 
 from the spot that her lips 
 
had touched. Yea, O Khu- 
 da, had it been the cup of 
 death, I would have drained 
 it." 
 
 Then said Khuda unto 
 the man: "When thou 
 didst eat of the fruit, ver- 
 ily thou didst also drink of 
 the cup of death ! O Adam, 
 did I not give thee Will, 
 that thou mightest overcome 
 Desire?" And the man 
 replied, "Yea, Khuda, but 
 
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 didst not Thou also give the 
 woman Beauty, that she 
 might overcome Will?" 
 
 Then Khuda turned from 
 Adam and called Michael 
 to Him, and bade the angel 
 take his sword in his hand 
 and hew the limbs from 
 off the body of the serpent, 
 because the serpent had 
 aided Iblis in the evil that 
 he had wrought. And thus, 
 unto this day, despite all 
 
the wisdom that Iblis had 
 given him, the serpent 
 crawls upon his belly in the 
 dust, for he hath no limbs 
 to sustain him. 
 
 And Khuda turned again 
 to Adam and said, " Adam, 
 I have made thee lord over 
 all the earth, and endowed 
 thee more than any living 
 thing; I have placed upon 
 thee but one command, and 
 that thou hast broken; I 
 
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gave thee this garden that 
 thou mightest live here in 
 joy and peace and naught 
 hadst thou to do but stretch 
 out thy hand and pluck the 
 fruits that my bounty had 
 given thee, but still thou 
 wert not contented. I gave 
 thee also the fairest of all 
 creatures upon earth to be 
 thy companion, but thou 
 wert not happy; therefore 
 will I now cast thee forth 
 
from the garden, and I will 
 put -angels with flaming 
 swords in the way, and thou 
 shalt never return. And 
 no longer shalt thou put 
 forth thy hand to receive 
 without toil thy daily bread; 
 but thou shalt labor for thine 
 own living, and for thy wife 
 and for the children that 
 shall be born to thee, and 
 only in thy labor shalt thou 
 find thy happiness." 
 
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