Why does the Qur’an place such great emphasis on gardens and/or feasts?
As a part of Abrahamic religion, Islam is the second large one in the world. With a similar origin, we can find out some common features among Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They are all believe in one almighty god, have a similar setup such as hell and heaven. And the whole reason why the Qur’an place such an effort on describing gardens and feasts is to draw the picture for its believers to follow the belief. The Qur’an has successfully depict the beautiful of how heaven should look like through the phrases and words. In the Feast chapter, it states” they will have Gardens graced with flowing streams…” It is like a reminder for the reader to fully oblige them into Islam because the obey one will enjoy the feast and the disobey one will have nothing but punishment.
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I find it odd that you compare the different religions in this way, since in the Qur’an it is mentioned quite frequently that (Christianity especially) their followers are deceived in a way. The Qur’an questioned why Christians called Jesus a God when it was his father who was God, and later goes on to question why people think Jesus is God’s child, since God is self-sufficient and needs no child. While in the instance of a heaven, they might have similarities, the Qur’an more than others clashes with what the other religions believe.
I agree with you somewhat. Specifically that the reason for this is to draw a picture of what is believed to be heaven, and that all three religions believe in only one almighty god. But I think that the qur’an takes it a step further than this assuming that any non-believers are disobedient and will go to hell, whereas in almost every other religion, there is no sense of animosity or violence towards non-believers. In fact Jews do not believe in hell at all, but rather they have a concept of washing away the sins one has committed to prepare them for heaven.