The Universal Commandment, the UC, is first a declarative commandment. As soon as the prohibition clause is added, the whole becomes an imperative, (by extension).
This means it is one of three declarative commandments, with the first sentence of the Torah and with the first commandment of the ten.
A declarative commandment can only be obeyed with perfect faith.
For Adam to have heard this commandment as a declarative commandment may have been difficult. (There is difficulty hearing the other two as commandments.). Here the difficulty is in that rather than a commandment of obedience the UC seems to be a granting of permission, an authorization. Even as such a perfect faith will hear it as a declaration of truth which requires fulfillment, a fulfillment by Adam. As such, it constitutes a commandment to be obeyed.
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