kur'ân'da cennet kavramı - gariban tavuk

ABSTRACT
The matter for which a person will recompense at its post-mortern life for
its every action, attitude and behavior it realized with its free will in this
life, is a common concept both in the holly texts of religions with the
belief of life after death and in mythological apprehensions. The situation
a person will face at its life beyond its death is ‘heaven’ in positive sense
as award for its good behaviors and is ‘hell’ in negative sense as
punishment for its bad behaviors, called in The Holy Koran. Heaven
corresponding to goodness at life beyond death, is called a place in green,
woody, canopy, possessing all pleasurable items for human. These
descriptions in The Holy Koran are presented in lively and concrete
expressions through verses. The main course of action in this research is to
put forward the change done in spiritual and social life of human with
heaven descriptions in The Holy Koran and prescriptions taking part
among them, and especially make related verses clearer by bringing the
subject into the agenda for discussion. Besides, although it is argued that it
is possible to bring evidences for presence of heaven through logical
deductions, it is apparent that it is not a field that is acknowledgeable
through observations and experiments rather it is a matter of belief.
Key words: The Holy Koran, Sunnah, Heaven, Good Act, Award, Punishment.
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