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qāla hbiṭū baʿḍukum li-baʿḍin ʿaduwwun wa-lakum fī l-ʾarḍi mustaqarrun wa-matāʿun ʾilā ḥīnin
He said, ‘Get down, being enemies of one another! On the earth shall be your abode and sustenance for a time.’
— Ali Quli Qarai
7Al-A'rāfالأعرافVerse 24 of 206
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He said, ‘Get down, being enemies of one another! On the earth shall be your abode and sustenance for a time.’
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah Al-‘A’raf, Verses 24 - 25
24. "He said: 'Get you down, some of you (being) the enemies of others and for you there is in the earth an abode and a provision for a (fixed) time'."
25. "He said: 'Therein shall you live, and therein shall you die, and from it shall you be raised'."
It was thus that Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden, and, thereafter, humankind began their adventurous lives on the earth. The Qur'an says:
Allah says to human beings that both your lives and deaths perform on the earth, and, on the Resurrection Day you will be raised and come out from inside the ground.
It is understood from this verse that, on the Resurrection Day, Allah will raise and bring out human beings from this very ground.