"Then Allah created the birds and the beasts and the fishes; all things that swim, and creep, and fly, and run, and every living thing rejoiced in the sunshine.
"So Allah rested from his work in the Garden of Eden, by the Four Rivers, and looked around him, and behold the whole earth was astir in the forepart of the day.
"Then the breeze blew, and the waters laughed and rippled, and the birds sang, and the blossoms fell.
"So the angels smiled, and said, Praise be to Allah. It is very good--Allah! Bismillah!
"Then Allah saw that there were none of the inhabitants of earth that could smile as the angels smiled, or walk erect and praise him with the face to heaven.
"For the steed was grazing downward, and the lion lay couched in his lair, and the eagle, though she turned her eye to the sun, had neither praise nor smile.
"Then Allah took clay, and moistened it, and fashioned it till the sun went down.
"And Allah rested from his work, and left it in the Garden of Eden, by the Great Tree, where the Four Rivers spring.
"Now Gabriel walked in the garden, and he stopped where the work of Allah lay plastic on the sward, and the star shone bright on his forehead, for he praised Allah in his heart.
"And Shaitán came to walk in the garden, to cool his brow, and he stopped over against Gabriel and mocked.