Ma`rifat Adyan

In the Qur'an, among the ethnic groups and followers of religions, the Jews have been most frequently referred to and the most moral decline has been attributed to them. Therefore, explanation and investigation of the roots and the main components of the moral decline of the Jews in the Qur'an seems necessary. Using descriptive and qualitative content analysis method and open coding, and through categorization of all wrong Jewish religious, moral and behavioral characteristics through closed coding, this paper investigates and analyzes the Jews’ immoral traits. By examining the words, contents and concepts of the Qur'anic verses, first the general characteristics of Jews and then their most important immoral traits have been identified, and finally in order to achieve the goal of the research and determining the main factors of the decline of the Jews, the most important religious and moral characteristics of the Jews have been discussed as longitudinal results in the following issues: 1. Sensualism and empirical epistemology and, accordingly, materialism and racism; 2. Following carnal desires as the driving force behind the moral decline of Jews; 3. Deliberate disobedience, affected by factors 1 and 2, have been considered as reasons for the moral decline of Jews.