When his watch was complete and his observation certain, he turned him swiftly underneath the Earth and came back saying to the Guardians of the Gate: “Make room! I have a sure and a terrible report.” So his passage was permitted, and he lay till evening in the Garden. Then he said: “Can the Accursed by any means escape the Decree?” It was answered: “By no means can they escape or avoid.” Then the Mole said: “But I have seen that they have escaped.” It was answered: “Declare thy observation.” The Mole said: “The enemies to each other have altogether departed from Thy worship and Thy adoration. Nor are they in any sort enemies to each other, for they enjoy together the most perfect felicity, and moreover they have made them a new God.” It was answered: “Declare the shape of the God.” The Mole said: “Their God is of small stature, pinkish in colour, unclothed, fat and smiling. They lay it upon the grass and, filling its hands with flowers, worship it and desire no greater comfort.” It was answered: “Declare the name of the God.” The Mole said: “Its name is Quabil (Cain), and I testify upon a sure observation that it is their God and their Uniter and their Comforter.” It was answered: “Why hast thou come to Us?” The Mole said: “Through my zeal and my diligence; for honour and in hope of reward.” It was answered: “Is this, then, the best that thou canst do with the eyes which We gave thee?” The Mole said: “To the extreme of my ability!” It was answered: “There is no need. Thou hast not added to their burden, but to thine own. Be darkened henceforward, upon Earth and under Earth. It is not good to spy upon any creature of God to whom alleviation is permitted.” So, then, the Mole’s eyes were darkened and contracted, and his lot was made miserable upon and under the Earth to this day. But to those two, Adam and Eve, the alleviation was permitted, till Habil and Quabil and their sisters Labuda and Aqlemia had attained the age of maturity. Then there came to the Greatest Substitute and his Consort, from out of Kabul the Stony, that Peacock, by whose contrivance Eblis the Accursed had first obtained admission into the Garden of the Tree. And they made him welcome in all their ways and into all their imaginings; and he sustained them with false words and flagitious counsels, so that they considered and remembered their forfeited delights in the Garden both arrogantly and impenitently.