Features of the Heaven in the Qur’an: Focusing on the Relationship between God and Human Beings

In this paper, we analyze and clarify the features of the Heaven as described in the Qur’an, which plays a decisive role in the formation of the Islamic worldview. In this study, 310 Arabic verses were analyzed, including ????, which literally means “the Heaven.” The letters A, G, and H are used to describe the Heaven, God, and human beings, respectively, and are used in four themes from the descriptions of the Heaven verses. “Relationship between the Heaven and God” is R(A,G); “Relationship between the Heaven and human beings” is R(A,H); “Relationship of the Heaven as the place where God and human beings interact” is R(G,A,H); and “State of the Heaven” is S(A). From the analysis of the 310 Heaven verses, it was possible to extract 26 “types of the Heaven.” In each theme, the various features of the Heaven are understood more clearly.