A pupil asked his master: "Why was Adam obliged to leave paradise?" The Master
replied; "When Adam, the noblest of creatures, entered paraidse he heard a
resounding voice from the invisible world: 'O you who are attqched to the
earthly paradise by a hundred bonds, know that whoever in the two worlds is
identified with that which comes between him and me, I deprive of all that
exists visibly, so that he may become attached only to me, his true friend.' To
a lover, a hundred thousand lives are nothing without the beloved. He who has
lived for something other than Him, were it Adam himself, has been driven out.
The dwellers in Paradise know that the first thing they must give up is their
heart."
Fariduddin Attar
from The Conference of the Birds
C. S. Nott version
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