ADAM’S PRAYING FOR FORGIVENESS IN THE LIGHT OF THE QUR’AN VERSES

Praying for forgiveness is an individual's asking God to be forgiven from his/her sins. Praying for forgiveness is not only an action done by putting it in words orally but also an action to be done and asked at heart. Praying for forgiveness whic is anly done by words not by heart is likend to that of a liar. There are lots of verses in Quran related to the topic and it is laso mentioned in the holly book that various prophets also asked for forgiveness due to some of their certain actions. This study discusses in detail by taking the related verses in Quran and fundematal resources in exegetics into consideration the reasons that caused Adam, the first man and prophet, to pray for forgivness, the way he prayed for forgiveness, whether his action by eating the forbidden fruit of a tree in the heaven was a sin or not and if that action is a sin, how this sin can be associated with the innocence of prophets