The answer to the saying of Allah the Exalted: "And We had already taken a covenant from Adam, but he forgot, and We found no determination in him," for Allah took him to account for his forgetfulness and expelled him from Paradise.

The Shaykh : If someone were to say: Did not Allah say about Adam: And Allah took him to account for this, and Allah took him to account for this by expelling him from Paradise, while He says "he forgot"? What is the answer? Please.
The student: ... .

The Shaykh : Yes
The student: ... .

The Shaykh : Well, this is another answer. It says: The dropping of sin due to forgetfulness is in the Shari'ah of Islam, but as for what came before, forgetfulness does not drop the sin. This is another answer.
The student: ... .

The Shaykh : No... this is an argument based on divine decree, not on the Shari'ah.
The student: ... that forgetfulness in this verse means leaving off.

The Shaykh : Stand up, my brother.
The student: ... that forgetfulness in this verse means leaving off.

The Shaykh : That forgetfulness in this verse means leaving off. So "he forgot" means he left it off. Be patient, my brother. Well, do you have an example or a proof that forgetfulness means leaving off?
The student: The saying of the Exalted: ... .

The Shaykh : Do you forget from among those who forget? Meaning he left them. Well done. And it is not possible that forgetfulness in this verse means heedlessness, because Allah the Exalted, because Allah the Exalted said about Moses when Pharaoh asked him about the former generations, he said: What? And perhaps this aspect is closer than the first aspect, that Adam (peace and blessings be upon him) left it off intentionally, not out of forgetfulness. And for this reason, there was severe rebuke in it: But So what? Perhaps we will limit ourselves to this regarding the end of Surat al-Baqarah. And the most important thing in it from the jurisprudential and ruling perspective is that a person is excused by ignorance, and no sin or making up of worship or expiation is attached to him, because Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, said in His saying: He said: And all praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds.