The garden of trial (where Adam dwelt)

Sha'rawi holds that the garden in which Adam dwelt was a garden of trial for applying the method, not the eternal Garden ¹. He argues from the duty it carried, since the Hereafter has no duty ³. See al-A'raf 19 and al-Kahf 32.

He notes that God allowed Adam and his wife to eat as they pleased, and that the garden had many kinds of provision so that the soul would not tire ⁴. He holds that the garden was supplied with all that sustains life before they dwelt in it, as the earth was ³.

He notes that the Qur'an uses jannah for gardens of this world too, such as the owners of gardens in the story of the Kahf and the people of Saba, and explains the word as covering, because the trees are thick ^{2 3}.

He holds that Adam was created for khilafa on earth, and that those of his descendants who are righteous enter the eternal Garden in the Hereafter, so entering the Garden was not the first aim ³.

This is Sha'rawi's reading. The views he rebuts are not named and have not been checked. No academic reading of the garden's place in the story is set out here, and none is checked.