وَيَٰٓـَٔادَمُ ٱسۡكُنۡ أَنتَ وَزَوۡجُكَ ٱلۡجَنَّةَ فَكُلَا مِنۡ حَيۡثُ شِئۡتُمَا وَلَا تَقۡرَبَا هَٰذِهِ ٱلشَّجَرَةَ فَتَكُونَا مِنَ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ ١٩
And "O Adam, dwell, you and your wife, in Paradise and eat from wherever you will but do not approach this tree, lest you be among the wrongdoers."
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وَيَٰٓـَٔادَمُ And O Adam wayāādamu ٱسۡكُنۡ Dwell us'kun أَنتَ you anta وَزَوۡجُكَ and your wife wazawjuka ٱلۡجَنَّةَ (in) the Garden l-janata فَكُلَا and you both eat fakulā مِنۡ from min حَيۡثُ wherever ḥaythu شِئۡتُمَا you both wish shi'tumā وَلَا but (do) not walā تَقۡرَبَا approach [both of you] taqrabā هَٰذِهِ this hādhihi ٱلشَّجَرَةَ [the] tree l-shajarata فَتَكُونَا lest you both be fatakūnā مِنَ among mina ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ the wrongdoers l-ẓālimīna Tafsir Then Allah told Adam: 'O Adam go and dwell you and your wife Eve in the Paradise, and eat from the good things in it, but do not approach and eat from that tree, for if you both eat from that tree after My prohibiting it you would be of those who transgress My limits.'
Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran
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