Islamic View of Garden of Aden, The Serpent and Cursed Snake

Garden of Eden:

The story of the Garden of Eden is present in the Quran, emphasizing the mistake of Adam and Eve (Hawwa in Islam) and their expulsion from paradise. It is known as Jannat, as you may already know. 

Sarah was a righteous woman and the wife of the prophet Abraham in Islam.

The Serpent and the Cursed Snake:

In Islam, there is no serpent, rather this is the biblical story.

The Quran does not explicitly mention serpent, it was Iblis (satan) who tempted Adam and Eve to eat from the forbidden tree.

Poisoned Fruit:

However, Satan deceived them and they ate the fruit of the forbidden tree, and as a result, they were banished from paradise.

The forbidden tree has also been mentioned in two other verses of the Quran: Verse 19 of Surah Al-A’raf and verse 120 of Surah Taha.

The specific type of fruit is not mentioned,

But the Quran does not say what tree it was and what fruit it had. In Hadiths and Quran interpretations, there are two main views on this:

1- Apparent interpretation: Some interpreters have considered the apparent meaning of the word tree and named different fruits such as grapes, wheat, fig, dates, etc. Some may ask wheat is not a fruit of tree. The answer is that in Quranic terms, Shajar (tree) refers to different kinds of plants. For example in the story of Hazrat Yunus (AS), the Quran says “… and We caused a pumpkin tree to grow over him.” (Surah As-Saaffat, verse 146)

Recently, in the popular culture, sometimes it is said that the forbidden fruit was apple. This view comes from the Western culture that sometimes consider apple as the symbol of temptation and the original sin. But none of Islamic Hadiths and interpretations have referred to apple as the forbidden fruit.