The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-25 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

ADAM.
MR. EDITOR—The manner in which the Wia-
hommedans relate the creation and fall of our
first parents, presents a striking mixture of truth
and absurdity, which might appear extraordinary
did we not know that Mahomet himself was as-
sisted by a Christian and a Jew in the composi-
tion of his Koran, and therefore mingled some of
the truths they communicated with his own vi-
sionary notions.

According to the Mussulman, then, when God
wished to create man, he sent the angel Gabriel
to take a handful of each of the seven beds
which composed the earth. But when the latter
heard the order of God, he felt much alarmed,
and requested the heavenly messenger to repre-
sent to God, that as the creature he was about to
form might chance to rebel one day against him,
this would be the means of bringing upon himself
the divine malediction. God, however, far from
listening to this request, dispatched two other
angels, Michael and Azrael, to execute his will ,•
but they, moved with compassion, were prevailed
upon again to lay the complaints of the earth at
the feet of her author. Then God confided the
execution of his commands to the formidable
Azrael alone, who, regardless of all the earth
might say, violently tore from her bosom seven'
handfuls from her various strata, and carried
them into Arabia, where the work of creation
was to be completed. As to Azrael, God was se,
well pleased with the decisive manner in which
he had acted, that he gave him the office of sepa-
rating the soul from the body, whence he is
called the Angel of Death.
Meanwhile, the angels having kneaded this
earth, God moulded it with his own hands, and
left it sometime that it might get dry. The
angels delighted to gaze upon the lifeless, but
beautiful mass, with the exception of Eblis, or
Lucifer, who, bent upon evil, struck it upon the
stomach, which giving a hollow sound, he said,
since this creature will be hollow, it will often
need being filled, and will be, therefore, exposed
to pregnant temptations. Upon this, he asked
the angels how they would act if God wished to
render them dependent upon this sovereign which
he was about to give to the earth. They readily
answered that they would obey ; but although
Eblis did not openly dissent, he resolved within
himself that he would not follow their example.
After the body of the first man had been pro-
perly prepared, God animated it with an intel-
ligent soul, and clad him in splendid and mar-
vellous garments, suited to the dignity of this
favoured being. He now commanded his angels
to fall prostrate before Adam. All of them
obeyed, with the exception of Eblis, who was in
consequence immediately expelled from heaven,
and his place given to Adam.

The formation of Eve from one of the ribs of
the first man is the same as that recorded in the
Bible, as is also the order give❑ to the father
of mankind not to taste the fruit of a particular
tree. Eblis seized this opportunity of revenge.
Having associated the peacock and the serpent
in the enterprise, they by their wily speeches at
length persuaded Adam to become guilty of dis-
obedience. But no sooner had they touched the
forbidden fruit, than their garments dropped on
the ground, and the sight of their nakedness
covered them both with shame and with confu-
sion. They made a covering for their body with
fig leaves; but they were botk immediately con-
demned to labour, and to die, and hurled down
from Paradise.

Adam fell upon the mountain of Sarendip, in
the island of Ceylon, where a mountain is called
by his name to the present day. Eve being se-
parated from her spouse, in her fall alighted on
die spot where China now stands, and Eblis fell
not far from the same spot. As to the peacock
and the snake, the former dropped in Ilindoostan,
and the latter in Arabia.

Adam soon feeling the enormity of his fault,
implored the mercy of God, who relenting, sent
down his angels from Heaven ►;ith a tabernacle,
hich they placed on the spot where Abraham,
at a subsequent period, built the temple of
Mecca. Gabriel instructed him in the rites and
ceremonies performed about the Sanctuary, in
order that he might obtain the forgiveness of his
offence, and afterwards led him to the Mountain
of Arafat, where he met Eve, from whom he had
now been separated above two hundred years.
A. P.

In the Siberian Government of Tobolsk, a
new town, called Tukalinsk, has been founded ;
the local authorities were solemnly installed on
the 24th December last, being the anniversary
of the Emperor's birth-day.—(Petersburgh Pa-
per, May 29.)

BIRTHS.
On Wednesday, the 23(1 inst., at his house in Montagne-
square, the lady of Lieut.-Col. Maeneil, of Barra, Inverness-
shire, of a son still-born.
On the 18th inst., at Stanground, Hunts, the lady of the
Rev. H. V. Stnythies, of a son.