Thereafter, it is narrated, that Eblis the Stoned consorted with them secretly in the Garden, and the Peacock with him; and they jested and made mirth for our Lord Adam and his Lady Eve and propounded riddles and devised occasions for the stringing of the ornaments and the threading of subtleties. And upon a time when their felicity was at its height, and their happiness excessive, and their contentment expanded to the uttermost, Eblis said: “O my Master and my Mistress declare to us, if it pleases, some comparison or similitude that lies beyond the limits of possibility.” Adam said: “This is easy. That the Sun should cease in Heaven or that the Rivers should dry in the Garden is beyond the limits of possibility.” And they laughed and agreed, and the Peacock said: “O our Lady, tell us now something of a jest as unconceivable and as beyond belief as this saying of thy Lord.” Our Lady Eve then said: “That my Lord should look upon me otherwise than is his custom is beyond this saying.” And when they had laughed abundantly, she said: “O our Servitors, tell us now something that is further from possibility or belief than my saying.” Then the Peacock said: “O our Lady Eve, except that thou shouldst look upon thy Lord otherwise than is thy custom, there is nothing further than thy saying from possibility or belief or imagination.” Then said Eblis: “Except that the one of you should be made an enemy to the other, there is nothing, O my Lady, further than thy saying from possibility, or belief, or imagination, or apprehension.” And they laughed immoderately all four together in the Garden. But when the Peacock had gone and Eblis had seemed to depart, our Lady Eve said to Adam: “My Lord and Disposer of my Soul, by what means did Eblis know our fear?” Adam said: “O my Lady, what fear?” Eve said: “The fear which was in our hearts from the first, that the one of us might be made an enemy to the other.” Then our pure Forefather bowed his head on her bosom and said: “O Companion of my Heart, this has been my fear also from the first, but how didst thou know?” Eve said: “Because I am thy flesh and thy soul. What shall we do?” Thus, then, they came at moonrise to the Tree that had been forbidden to them, and Eblis lay asleep under it. But he waked merrily and said: “O my Master and my Mistress, this is the Tree of Eternity. By eating her fruit, felicity is established for ever among mankind; nor after eating it shall there be any change whatever in the disposition of the hearts of the eaters.” Eve then put out her hand to the fruit, but Adam said: “It is forbidden. Let us go.” Eve said: “O my Lord and my Sustainer, upon my head be it, and upon the heads of my daughters after me. I will first taste of this Tree, and if misfortune fall on me, do thou intercede for me; or else eat likewise, so that eternal bliss may come to us together.”