“O Lord, verily I have injured my own soul, wherefore forgive me. Thus, in Sura Al-Qasas (28), verse 15-16, etc., we read that Moses, after killing an Egyptian, prayed thus: 8 Moses is also represented in the Qur’an as a sinner. Afterwards, when the idolaters accused Abraham of the act, he flatly denied any complicity in the crime, and replied that “The large (idol) did it.” 7 In other places also, his prayers for pardon are mentioned. It is there stated that Abraham broke many of the idols of the idolaters but left the largest of them intact. “And he (Satan) caused them to fall through deceit and they said, O Lord, we have dealt unjustly with our souls if thou forgive us not and be not merciful unto us, we shall be of those who perish.” In like manner the sin of Abraham is recorded in Sura Al-Anbiya' (21). verses 22-23, we have a mention of Adam's sin and his prayer for pardon. We give below, by way of example, one or two verses from the Qur’an.
On the other hand, both the Bible and the Qur’an abound in allusions to the sins of other prophets and their prayers for pardon and in the latter book we find Muhammad himself again and again commanded to ask pardon for his sins.
“I have named her Mary, and I commend her and her offspring to thy protection from Satan the stoned.” In accordance with these passages we find that Jesus Christ is everywhere in the writings of Islam represented as perfectly sinless, and in neither Qur’an nor Traditions is a single sin ever imputed to Him. Again in Sura Ali 'Imran (3), verse 36, it is written:
“Verily I am the messenger of thy Lord to give thee a holy son.” (Sura Maryam (19), verse 19). In the Qur’an we read that the angel Gabriel came to Mary and said:. Verily, Islam has crowned all the honours which it has bestowed upon the son of Mary by a name exalted and glorious, in that it describes Him as the sinless prophet. In yet another particular, as we have already indicated, Jesus Christ is represented in the authorities of Islam as far exalted above Noah, Abraham, Moses, David and other prophets, namely, that He alone is represented as sinless.
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