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Originally Posted by dlish
The Christian concept of the Original Sin is foreign to islam. no man or woman shall be judged by god except for his own sins.
as for absolution, ive mentioned it earlier, but we dont have a formal way of confession like christuanity has with a priest. it is a personal and private matter that an individual can ask god at any time for forgiveness.
Leto, not sure if i'm going down the right track, but am i answering your question correctly?
although im unsure about your question about praying for others in the afterlife...could you clarify? are yo asking whether one can pray for someone who has passed away?
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sure I can clarify. First, let me explain my context. I was raised United Church which is a fairly broad based populist Protestant denomination in Canada. So my religious education was basically church on Sundays with Sunday school, and learning the Jesus songs/ colouring pictures etc. By the time I was old enough to decide on my own to go, I didn't. So I am only glancingly familiar with the Catholic tradition.
So, about praying for somebody in the afterlife, I understand that Catholics (and Anglicans??) believe that if you go to church and pray for somebody who has died, their soul will benefit. Which is why you always see old Italian widows, all dressed in black, going to church all the time (in my neighbourhood anyway). It's like you can intercede on behalf of somebody's soul.
Your lack of a formal confession is what i view as being similar to Protestantism. I think that with the Reformation, the protestants argued that people would have a direct line to God, and can pray/confess directly to God without haveing to go through a priest/clergy. Maybe there was an influence from Islam in this regard?
As for original sin, I think (and I'm no expert!) that once Adam & Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden, all humans were saddled with original sin. I.e., even a baby, when it is born, is born a sinner and requires absolution. Or am I interpreting this incorrectly? At any rate, would not Islam have grandfathered this concept into its traditions as it is an Abrahamic religion?