Paradise lost – Quran and Bible

The first human couple lived in the Garden of Eden. The Qur’an speaks of Adam and his wife. The Bible talks in the abstract about the man, who was later joined in Eden by the woman created from his rib. In this garden of paradise, they were allowed to enjoy the abundance. But the fruit of one tree was forbidden in both books. In the Bible, it was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; in the Qur’an, it represented transgression.
Both books relate how the man and the woman ate from the tree. They were seduced to that deed of disobedience by a snake (Bible), by Satan (Qur’an). Thus, they lost paradise.
In the Bible, it was the woman who committed the first sin. The couple was driven from the garden of Eden. Angels with a flaming sword stood on guard by its forever closed gate. From then on man was burdened by sin.

This is the source of the Christian concept of original sin with which every human being comes into the world. Redemption is brought by Jesus Christ; sin is washed away in baptism.

In the Qur’an, the human couple committed injustice together. Together, they repented. They were both forgiven. Thus, the children of men and women are born without knowledge of sin, expressed as follows:

It is He Who brought you forth from the wombs of your mothers when you knew nothing; ^{16 The Bee, 78}

In the Qur’an Adam and his wife also had to leave paradise, to make a living on earth, and return to it after death. However, by living a good life on earth, they might be resurrected and return to the paradisiacal the Garden of Eden, as becomes especially clear in the translation of Dawood.