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Text in the showcase:

“O Adam! Live with your wife in Paradise and eat as freely as you please, but do not approach this tree, or else you will be wrongdoers!”
[Qur’an 2:35]

From the book “The Consolation of Objects“:

For my taste, Cranach is a bit too “illustrative” compared to other painters. But perhaps I was only bothered by the fact that I was not sufficiently familiar with the history behind it. I must write sometime about the extent to which one can enjoy Western painting without knowing enough about the intellectual history of Western civilization. Or about what separates image and text. The richly illustrative Islamic miniature painting separates itself from text and history because the painters do not reread and reinterpret the texts for each painting: They prefer to look at what other painters have already done on a subject.

Maybe that is why I wanted to do something with this painting that recalls Adam and Eve and the original sin. In the Qur’an, this scene does indeed occur, but it is told differently than in the Bible. While in the Qur’an, it is only mentioned in passing, every reasonably educated person in our part of the world knows the story of original sin and the expulsion from paradise as told in the Bible, probably because it has been depicted over and over again in paintings and caricatures.