Forbidden Fruit Is Procreation
السلام عليكم Ahmad Bhai, I think the way Ghamidi Sahab sees it is that the whole event of Adam and Eve عليهما السلام with Iblees was so that they get to know that the two most gruesome tasks humanity will face in its time on Earth are going to be the struggle with one’s ego and controlling the sexual urge. It was just to show them how difficult it is going to be to overcome these things and even people as good as them can succumb to temptation if they are not vigilant enough. Intercourse was prohibited just for this reason temporarily: so that they get to know that controlling this urge will be next to impossible even for the best of them. Consider it like the meeting of Khizr and Moses عليهما السلام. There is nothing wrong with being inquisitive; in fact, it may be encouraged. However, Khizr temporarily asked Moses not to question him even when he killed a youth for seemingly no reason at all. However, Moses was not able to withhold himself for long and that ended their journey there. Similarly, intercourse was never wrong. It was obedience to God’s orders that was required, so as to make the gravity of the challenge clear on Adam and Eve. Does that help?
The prohibition was not of the act itself, but of the implementation of desires in a way that does not lead to utmost purification? My personal understanding tells me that it was a lesson regarding the whole ethos of “desire”. That every act should be manifested after thought and responsibility. Which makes it pure or impure. Procreation, for example, is good in itself. But the timing makes it bad or pure (such as sex before marriage or extra marital affairs). So as Ghamidi sb also states on this topic that it was a temporary prohibition such as while fasting or umrah. For purification purposes. Sending them down was not a punishment. Do the verses that talk about their descent make it look like it was? (A genuine Q). How I see the whole event as; God had to place us here, thus the conversation with angels. Had to prepare us before. The prohibition was only given to manifest to “us” the entire mechanism of desire that defines us. (I think it would make better sense to view it from our perspective). Share your thoughts further so that i can also learn.