'Why was Adam driven from the garden?' <br />The pupil asked his master. 'His heart was hardened <br />With images, a hundred bonds that clutter the earth <br />Chained Adam to the cycle of death following birth. <br />He was blind to this equation, living for something other <br />Than God and so out of paradise he was driven <br />With his mortal body's cover his soul was shriven. <br />Noblest of God's creatures, Adam fell with blame, <br />Like a moth shrivelled by the candle's flame, <br />Into history which taught mankind shame. <br />Since Adam had not given up his heart <br />To God's attachment, there was no part <br />For Adam in paradise where the only friend <br />Is God; His will is not for Adam to imagine and bend.<br /><br />Farīd ud-Dīn Attar Abū Hamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhī<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/why-was-adam/
