One Day Eve Came To Me Poem by Mohammad Younus

One day, Eve came to me,
Saying, ‘I've come to stay with you for a long while';
I perceived that she uttered word of unfading love to me
And she lived with me happily giving me a good company.
I said to her, ‘we will love together - away from this forbidden tree! '
But she answered, full of guile, in her sweet tongue
What harm is in coming near to the tree?
And went on arguing in a cunning style
Then, looking, I saw Iblis coming silently,
Dressed in black raiment of a godman,
Impressing upon me that it was a tree of knowledge
forbidden to me so that I did not come to know of my divinity
Having a black hat set upon his hair, he beguiled Eve and me
And certainly the words he told were not true,
So that I was duped by him into his trickery,
And came near to the forbidden tree, and ate of what was not good for me
Infuriated, my lord told me: ‘A grief now you will have to go through;
On the earth where I am sending you to be reborn under my guidance
Those who follow the voice of conscience - my word - will return to paradise,
And those who ignore my word will be deprived of paradise forever,
'Verily, for him is a life of hardship, and we shall raise him up blind...
...on the Day of Resurrection (the Quran)

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