when the children and offsprings of prophet Adam increased in number, they used to talk before him but the prophet Adam was silent and did not use to talk alot, they asked the prophet Adam about his silence and he said: my children, when Allah Almighty expeled me out of his mercy territory made an agreement with me, he said: you can return again to me only if you speak less in the worldly life..
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Book mystical Islam, vol. 13
source : erfan.ir