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Sura 7
Aya 25
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قالَ فيها تَحيَونَ وَفيها تَموتونَ وَمِنها تُخرَجونَ

Yusuf Ali

He said: “Therein shall ye live, and therein shall ye die; but from it shall ye be taken out (at last).”1
  • Cf. this whole passage about Adam with the passage in 2:30-39, and with other passages in subsequent Sūras. In places the words are precisely the same, and yet the whole argument is different. In each case it exactly fits the context. In S. 2, the argument was about the origin of man. Here the argument is a prelude to his history on earth, and so it continues logically in the next section to address the Children of Adam, and goes on afterwards with the story of the various prophets that came to guide mankind. Truth is one, but its apt presentment in human words shows a different facet in different contexts.