Sin and its consequences in the Hebrew Bible and the Qur’an

Moral and theological concept of sin, which has basic role in the Abrahamic Religions. In this religions, sins defines willful disobedience of God and source of all moral evil. On the other hand, sin in the Abrahamic religions requires the existence of God and His commandments. So some sins are not morally guilt, but regarding to the theology is sin. Sin has special place in the Jewish. However, the idea of ​​sin in Jewish history, gradually evolved. Sin in the prime period of Jewish is not moral and spiritual but whatever is on the contrary of YHWH commands calculate sin. By the emerging of prophets, the new meaning and concept is given to the sin. Sin, is something that catch man with its evil essence and adds spiritual meaning to concept of sin in addition to violation of  religious commands and taboo. Prophets stress so much on the individual and social liability and justice enforcement, thus in the prophets’ idea social corruption, justice unenforcement consider sin. After exile period, Hebrew bible, universality reach to the peak. Wisdom which teaches us knowledge, is not primarily based on the Torah, but is origin of human wisdom. So whatever considered sin regarding to wisdom and sociality calculate sin. Islam like Jewish allocate special place for sin. What that is stressed on Islam is obedience of God commands and violation of that is considered sin. Idea of sin Islam history gradually evolved but this process evolve in the Mohammad prophet period. Both Jewish and Islam, mention consequences for sin in this world and Hereafter and insist on close relation between sin, suffer, unhappiness and other troubles. there are lots of similarity and differences between both religions that will be dealt with in this thesis.