Notes on Islam - Lesson 9 Salvation

Similarities with the Bible

Life, death, judgment, heaven/hell (40:38-40).

Must prepare for judgment and eternity (2:284; 3:185)

Reward/punishment (99:7-8)

Degrees of reward and punishment (46:19)

-M’s wives (33:30-31)

-Jews and Christians (28:54)

-warriors (57:10)

-prevent others from obeying (11:19-20)

-murderers and adulterers (25:69)

Salvation in Islam

Must repent of sins before judgment.

Tawbah, “to return”.   Around 40 times, as in 5:39; 9:104; 32:12

Cain (5:31); Moses (7:143); David (38:24); Solomon (38:35)

The End

“The Day of Resurrection” (yawm al-qiyama), 70 times (42:45, etc)

“The Day of Judgment” (yawm al-din), 13 times (1:4, etc)

“The Last Day” (al-yawm al-akhir), 25 times (5:69)

-Only God knows (33:63)

-Trumpet (10 times), 27:87

-Scales of justice – 21:47

-Right/left – 69:13-37

Hell

Al-nar, “fire,” (125 times), jahim “blazing flames” (26), jahannam (Gehenna?), 77 times

-7 gates (15:43-44)

-Humans are fuel (2:24; 21:98-100)

Boiling water – 6:70; 22:19

Ghassaq, vile drink – 14:16-17; 18:29

Dari, desert plant full of thorns – 88:6-7

Bitter tree, zaqqum, 37:62-67

Torture – 22:19b-22

 Heaven

“The Garden,” al-janna, 80 times often in plural

Fruit (2:25), shade (4:57); water (55:68; 76:13-14)

Spouses – 4:57; 2:25; 3:15

Virgins – 55:56; 56:36-37

Distinction from the Bible

Most basic issue is that in Islam there is no explanation for how God forgives us. This may be due to the less personal nature of the relationship between God and humans in Islam as opposed to Christianity.