Surah Al-A'raaf (7) — Ayah 22

(Ayah 22) ➊ {فَدَلّٰىهُمَا بِغُرُوْرٍ: ’’دَلّٰي يُدَلِّيْ تَدْلِيَةً ‘‘} (Taf‘īl) and {’’ اَدْلٰي يُدْلِيْ اِدْلَاءً ‘‘} (If‘āl) are from { ’’دَلْوٌ ‘‘ } (bucket), meaning just as a bucket is lowered down, in the same way, to let something fall from above to below; that is, Satan, by deception, brought them down from their high status.
➋ {فَلَمَّا ذَاقَا الشَّجَرَةَ:} In Surah Ta Ha (121) it is: «فَاَكَلَا مِنْهَا» that they ate from it. From the verse under explanation, it is understood that as soon as they tasted from the food, the honor of Paradise was taken away and they became unclothed.
➌ {وَ طَفِقَا يَخْصِفٰنِ عَلَيْهِمَا مِنْ وَّرَقِ الْجَنَّةِ:} It is understood that man is created inherently modest, and being naked is against human nature; that is why Adam and Hawwa (peace be upon them) began to cover their private parts with leaves of trees. That is why Satan likes being unclothed. Whereas being naked is the nature of animals, and the disbelievers and their followers like to be naked; if they wear clothes, they wear such that make them even more naked than being unclothed. Their human nature has been distorted. About them it is mentioned: « اُولٰٓىِٕكَ كَالْاَنْعَامِ بَلْ هُمْ اَضَلُّ» [ الأعراف : ۱۷۹ ] “These people are like cattle, rather they are even more astray.”
➍ {وَ نَادٰىهُمَا رَبُّهُمَاۤ:} From this verse and many other verses and hadiths, it is clear that there is sound (voice) in the speech of Allah Almighty, and angels and humans can hear it. Denying the voice and speech of Allah Almighty and declaring the Qur’an to be a creation instead of the speech of Allah is sheer misguidance. Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal (may Allah have mercy on him), along with his great steadfastness, proved before the whole world with the evidence of Qur’an and Sunnah that this is wrong.

22. 1. The meaning of تدلیۃ and ادلاء is to let something down from above to below, as if Satan brought them down from a high rank to the point of eating the forbidden tree's fruit.

22. 2. This manifested as the effect of that disobedience which occurred from Adam (علیہ السلام) and Hawwa unintentionally and unknowingly, and then both, out of shame, began to join together the leaves of Paradise to cover their private parts. Before this, they had been given a luminous garment from Allah, which, although invisible, was a covering (veil) for each other's private parts. Ibn Kathir

22. 3. That is, despite this warning, you fell prey to Satan's whispers. From this, it is understood that Satan's traps are very attractive and alluring, and to avoid them requires great effort, diligence, and constant vigilance.

So he deceived them and gradually lured them with his words [18]. When they tasted of the tree, their private parts became exposed to each other, and they began to cover themselves with the leaves of Paradise [19]. Then their Lord called out to them, "Did I not forbid you from that tree and tell you that Satan is your open enemy?"

[18] That is, it did not happen that as soon as Satan cast a whisper into the hearts of both of them and showed them alluring visions, immediately Sayyiduna Adam and Hawwa (peace be upon them) became ready to eat the fruit of that tree. Rather, for a long time, he kept assuring them that if you eat this fruit, you will indeed progress from humanity to the rank of angels. During this period, he also kept swearing oaths until he succeeded in inciting them to this act of disobedience.
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Modesty and Covering the Private Parts are Innate in Human Nature:

This means that the feeling of modesty and the instinct to cover one's private parts is inherent in the nature of both men and women. Due to eating the fruit, when Sayyiduna Adam (peace be upon him) and Hawwa (peace be upon her) lost their heavenly garments, the very first concern that gripped them was to cover their private parts, and when they could not immediately find anything, they took the leaves of the trees of Paradise and stuck them together or onto their bodies to cover their nakedness. This verse refutes the statements of those "researchers" who, when they sit down to write the story of human civilization and culture, claim that man used to be naked in the beginning and only after a long time did he make clothes and learn to cover his body. And these are the same researchers who consider man to be merely an advanced form of animal, and since animals do not cover their private parts, they assumed that man was also like this in the beginning. The Quran strongly refutes all these notions; it gives man the status of an independent and distinct creation that began with Adam (peace be upon him), and Allah made Adam's figure with His own hand, then fashioned him and gave him a very good form, then breathed into him of His spirit and made him superior and better than the rest of creation, then granted Sayyiduna Adam (peace be upon him) prophethood. Therefore, he was a pure monotheist, whereas the man of our researchers was originally a nature-worshipper. The reason is that all the reliance of these researchers is on conjecture and speculation, whereas divine revelation grants us true knowledge.