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• Beware of sins: they humbled the majesty of “Prostrate yourselves” ⦗Al-Baqarah 34⦘ and forfeited the estate of “Dwell [in Paradise]” ⦗Al-Baqarah 35⦘.
• Alas for a single instant whose searing anxiety bore fruit for a thousand years!
• He kept inscribing lines of sorrow in the chronicles with the blood of remorse, dispatching them on sighs of regret—until the decree arrived: “Then He accepted his repentance” ⦗Al-Baqarah 37⦘.
• Iblis rejoiced at Adam’s descent from Paradise, unaware that a diver’s plunge into the depths in search of pearls is, in reality, an ascent.
• How vast the distance between His words to Adam, “I am placing upon the earth a vice-regent” ⦗Al-Baqarah 30⦘, and His words to you, “Go—whoever of them follows you…” ⦗Al-Isrāʾ 63⦘!
• What befell Adam was the very purpose of his existence: “If you did not commit sins … ” (1).
• O Adam, do not despair at My saying to you, “Depart from it” ⦗Al-Aʿrāf 18⦘; for I created it for you and for the righteous among your offspring.
• O Adam, you once entered My presence as kings enter upon kings; today you come before Me as servants stand before kings.
• O Adam, do not grieve over a cup of stumbling that became the source of your prudence; the disease of self-admiration has been drawn out of you, and you have been robed in the garment of servitude—“yet it may be that you dislike a thing …” ⦗Al-Baqarah 216⦘.