Praise be to Allah, abundant praise that is adequate to His countless bounties, blessed praise as it is supposed to be made according to His Mighty Face and Authority, prayer and peace be upon His Messenger Mohamed, his household and companions.
<b>The training course</b>
As salam Alykom
"We had already, beforehand, taken the covenant of Adam, but he forgot: and We found on his part no firm resolve. * When We said to the angels, "Prostrate yourselves to Adam", they prostrated themselves, but not Iblis: he refused. * Then We said: "O Adam! verily, this is an enemy to thee and thy wife: so let him not get you both out of the Garden, so that thou art landed in misery. * "There is therein (enough provision) for thee not to go hungry nor to go naked, * "Nor to suffer from thirst, nor from the sun's heat." * But Satan whispered evil to him: he said, "O Adam! shall I lead thee to the Tree of Eternity and to a kingdom that never decays?" * In the result, they both ate of the tree, and so their nakedness appeared to them: they began to sew together, for their covering, leaves from the Garden: thus did Adam disobey his Lord, and allow himself to be seduced. * But his Lord chose him (for His Grace): He turned to him, and gave him Guidance. " (Quran 20: 115-122)
Looking at the above mentioned noble ayas makes me always see the training course Allah sobhanhu wa ta`ala put mankind through so that we would not have any argument as saying Oh sorry we didn't know.
It is just exactly a training course Sobhan Allah and a practical one too. To start with Allah explained the end result that Adam was trusted but could not stand the responsibility. Then Allah further explained that Adam was honored when Allah commanded the angles to prostrate to him, but here we must make a point that this Sujud was not in an indication of worship, but rather respect and a sign from Allah to tell the angles that they will have duty to assume with this creature, as there were other category of angles who were not commanded to prostrate.
Any way let us focus of the core of interest here.
At that point Iblees made a very clear and open rejection to the command refusing to prostrate. Based on this position, Allah warned Adam that Iblees is his enemy and he must be very careful not to let him drive both he and his wife out of Jannah.
A practical direct situation. Yet Adam was unable to stand the test in spite of the training course (and the direct warning from Allah), he listened to Iblees and slipped. The moment Adam ate from the forbidden tree, he and his wife started realizing their A`arwa (private parts), simply because before that they only ate what Allah made permissible for them and thus did not need to pass any waste.
The minute they ate what was not allowed, they lost this specialty and needed to use tree leaves from Jannah to cover themselves. Sobhan Allah, another sign of telling us, you obey you are in the safe side, you follow your own inclinations, you will encounter unexpected problems which might be unique. Of this we must fully understand that only Allah Knows what is best for us and food was just a symbol of this fact. We are His creation, the manufacturer certainly knows how the apparatus may function best.
Unlike Iblees who challenged Allah (wal Iyadhubillah) vowing to take the son of Adam astray. Adam asked Allah for repentance. Alhamdulelah that we children of Adam are granted this blessing of repentance.
We all must be aware of this experience, it is nothing new, the same old story, we know very well that Iblees is our enemy, yet sometimes we fail to resist.
But sobhan Allah the Quran presents the issue in a very easy and direct manner
May Allah allow us to benefit of this experience
Alhamdulelah Rub ala`alameen wa salatu wasalam a`la ashrafu lmorsaleen