Prayer Literature in Islam and Christianity with a Look at Augustine's Confessions and Safiha Sajjadiyeh

The purpose of writing this article is to examine the literature of asking for forgiveness or asking for forgiveness, confessing to sin and asking God to accept repentance and forgiveness from the servant in two books of Confessions and Safiha Sajjadiyeh. Analysis of Sajjadiyeh's book and Augustine's Confessions What kind of literature and in what axes can it be investigated? It has been written that the concepts mentioned in the two books have been widely discussed, and it can be conclusively stated that the majority of the literature of the two books is made up of concepts related to asking for forgiveness, asking for forgiveness, and confessing and confessing sins. From the linguistic point of view, the repetition of the concepts of asking for forgiveness and confession and confession of guilt is the dominant and common feature in the two books of Confessions and the Sahifah of Sajjadiyeh, as well as the expression of moral, educational and ideological concepts while expressing the concepts of asking for forgiveness is a common feature in the two works. In the following article, the apologetic concepts of both books have been examined and the main topics raised show that it is important that the themes of apologetics have been repeated a lot in both books, and the similarity of these repetitions and the way of talking to God are among other commonalities. Another characteristic that is seen more in the Sajjadiyyah and is more prominent is the issue of asking God not to commit sin.