Adam, Eve, and the Forbidden Tree

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وَفِي كِتَابِ التَّوْرَاةِ الَّتِي بِأَيْدِ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ

And in the Torah that is in the hands of the People of the Book.

أَنَّ الَّذِيَ دَلَّ حَوَّاءَ عَلَى الْأَكْلِ مِنَ الشَّجَرَةِ هِيَ الْحَيَّةُ

That the serpent was the one who led Eve to eat from the tree.

وَكَانَتْ مِنْ أَحْسَنِ الْأَشْكَالِ وَأَعْظَمِهَا

She was among the most beautiful and greatest forms,

فَأَكَلَتْ حَوَّاءُ عَنْ قَوْلِهَا وَأَطْعَمَتْ آدَمَ

Eve ate because of the serpent's words, and she fed Adam.

وَلَيْسَ فِيهَا ذِكْرٌ لِإِبْلِيسِ

And there is no mention of Iblis in it.

فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ اِنْفَتَحَتْ أَعْيُنُهُمَا وَعَلِمَا أَنَّهُمَا عُرْيَانَانِ

At that moment their eyes opened, and they realized they were naked.

فَوَصَلَا مِنْ وَرَقِ التِّينِ وَعَمِلَا مَآزِرَ

Then they joined fig leaves together and made aprons.

وَفِيهَا أَنَّهُمَا كَانَا عُرْيَانَيْنِ

And in it they were both naked.

وَكَذَا قَالَ وَهْبُ بْنُ مُنَبِّهٍ

And so Wahb ibn Munabbih said:

كَانَ لِبَاسُهُمَا نُورًا عَلَى فَرْجِهِ وَفَرْجِهَا

Their clothing was a light over his private part and over her private part.

وَهَذَا الَّذِي فِي هَذِهِ التَّوْرَاةِ الَّتِي بِأَيْدِيهِمْ غَلَطٌ مِنْهُمْ

And what is in this Torah that is in their hands is an error from them.

وَتَحْرِيفٌ وَخَطَأٌ فِي التَّعْرِيبِ

and a distortion and an error in the Arabic rendering,

فَإِنَّ نَقْلَ الْكَلَامِ مِنْ لُغَةٍ إِلَى لُغَةٍ لَا يَتَيَسَّرُ لِكُلِّ أَحَدٍ

Indeed, translating speech from one language into another is not something everyone can do.

وَلَا سَيِّمَا مِمَّنْ لَا يَكَادُ يَعْرِفُ كَلَامَ الْعَرَبِ جَيِّدًا

And especially those who hardly know Arabic well,

وَلَا يُحِيطُ عِلْمًا بِفَهْمِ كِتَابِهِ أَيْضًا

Nor can he fully grasp the meaning of his book either.

فَلِهَذَا وَقَعَ فِي تَعْرِيبِهِمْ لِهَا خَطَأٌ كَثِيرٌ لَفْظًا وَمَعْنًى

For this reason, their rendering of it into Arabic contained many errors, both in wording and in meaning.

وَقَدْ دَلَّ الْقُرْآنُ الْعَظِيمُ عَلَى أَنَّهُ كَانَ عَلَيْهِمَا لِبَاسٌ فِي قَوْلِهِ

The Glorious Qur'an indicates that there was clothing on them in the verse:

يَنْزِعُ عَنْهُمَا لِبَاسَهُمَا لِيُرِيهُمَا سَوْآتَهُمَا

He strips off from them their garments to show them their private parts.

فَهَذَا لَا يَرِدُ لِغَيْرِهِ مِنَ الْكَلَامِ

So this does not occur for any other from the speech.