Al-Kafi 12829

Translation

Ali Bin Muhammad, from Salih Bin Abu Hammad, from Al Husayn Bin Yazeed, from Al Hassan Bin Ali Bin Abu Hamza, (It has been narrated) from Ibrahim, from Abu Abdullah^asws having said: ‘When Allah^azwj the Exalted Caused Adam^as to descend from the Paradise, he^as started covering himself^as from a leaf of the Paradise, and his^as clothes flew away from him^as, which used to be upon him^as from the garments of the Paradise. So he^as cut off a leaf and veiled his^as nakedness with it. So when he^as descended, the aroma of that leaf remained at India with the vegetation. So the perfume came to be in the earth from the cause of that leaf upon which remained the aroma of the Paradise. Thus, from here on the perfume is at India, because upon the leaf fell the south wind, so its aroma led to the west because it carried the aroma of the leaf in the atmosphere. So when the wind stagnated at India, it remained in its trees, and its vegetation. So the first animal which grazed the musk from that leaf was a deer. Thus, from over there the musk came to be in the navel of the deer flowing the aroma of the vegetation in its body, and in its blood, gathering in the navel of the deer’.

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