After yet another hundred years, the Omnipotent Whose Name be exalted, put a bitter remorse into the bosom of the Peacock, and that bird closed his tail and wept upon the mountains of Serendib. Then said the Excellent and Faithful Archangel Jibrail: “How has the Vengeance overtaken thee, O thou least desirable of fowl?” The Peacock said: “Though I myself would by no means consent to convey Eblis into the Garden of the Tree, yet as is known to thee and to the All Seeing, I referred him to the Serpent for a subtle device, by whose malice and beneath whose tongue did Eblis secretly enter that Garden. Wherefore did Allah change my attuned voice to a harsh cry and my beauteous legs to unseemly legs, and hurled me into the district of Kabul the Stony. Now I fear that He will also deprive me of my tail, which is the ornament of my days and the delight of my eye. For that cause and in that fear I am penitent, O Servant of God.” Jibrail then said: “Penitence lies not in confession, but in restitution and visible amendment.” The Peacock said: “Enlighten me in that path and prove my sincerity.” Jibrail said: “I am troubled on account of Adam who, through the impure magic of Eblis, has departed from humility, and worships himself daily at an Altar and before a Mirror, in such and such a manner.” The Peacock said: “O Courier of the Thrones, hast thou taken counsel of the Lady Eve?” Jibrail asked: “For what reason?” The Peacock said: “For the reason that when the Decree of Expulsion was issued against those two, it was said: ‘_Get ye down, the one of you an enemy unto the other_,’ and this is a sure word.” Jibrail answered: “What will that profit?” The Peacock said: “Let us exchange our shapes for a time and I will show thee that profit.”