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Scholarly commentary explaining a verse — its context, its meaning and how the scholars have understood it.

Taha 20:121

Word by word

فَأَكَلَا مِنْهَا فَبَدَتْ لَهُمَا سَوْءَٰتُهُمَا وَطَفِقَا يَخْصِفَانِ عَلَيْهِمَا مِن وَرَقِ ٱلْجَنَّةِ ۚ وَعَصَىٰٓ ءَادَمُ رَبَّهُۥ فَغَوَىٰ

And they [i.e., Adam and his wife] ate of it, and their private parts became apparent to them, and they began to fasten over themselves from the leaves of Paradise. And Adam disobeyed his Lord and erred.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

فأكل آدم وحواء من الشجرة التي نهاهما الله عنها، فانكشفت لهما عوراتهما، وكانت مستورةً عن أعينهما، فأخذا ينزعان من ورق أشجار الجنة ويلصقانه عليهما; ليسترا ما انكشف من عوراتهما، وخالف آدم أمر ربه، فغوى بالأكل من الشجرة التي نهاه الله عن الاقتراب منها.

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