The two most prevalent beliefs that are shared by Islam and Christianity are the concept of death, suicide and funerals. In, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the concepts that are common between the monotheistic religions are reflected vividly and dramatically.

One of the dominant concept that was portrayed in Act 5: scene 1 was that of the sin underlying a suicidal act. In Islam, whatever applies to the crime of murder applies to that of suicide. Whoever takes his life by any means had unjustly takes a life Allah has made sacred. Since a human being cannot create him nor even a single cell of a body, the life of the individual does not belong to him. It is only a trust given to him by Allah and he has no rights to diminish or harm something that is not his. According to Islam, an individual shall be resolute in facing hardships and dilemma. He is not permitted to give up and runaway from his responsibility, when there are obstacles ahead of him. This belief is also shared by the Christians, although these two religions do have differences in their burial rites. I

Death plays a major role through out this work of literature because of its great impact on the protagonist of the play. In the aftermath of his father's murder, Hamlet is obsessed with the idea of death, and over the course of the play he considers death from a great many perspectives. He ponders both the spiritual consequences of death, embodied in the ghost, and the physical remainders of the dead, such as by Yorick's skull and the decaying corpses in the cemetery. Throughout, the idea of death is closely tied to the themes of spirituality, truth, and uncertainty in that death may bring the answers to Hamlet's deepest questions, ending once and for all the problem of trying to determine truth in an ambiguous world.

The two men that were digging Ophelia's grave in Act 5; Scene1 were disturbed by Ophelia’s burial. They questioned whether someone who tries to go to heaven by the short route (suicide) could be even given Christian burial. Thus this shows that according to Christianity just like Islam, suicide was considered a sin, and sometimes even unpardonable. Suicides would ordinarily be buried in unconsecrated ground without a Christian service. However, unlike Islam, Christians would felt that people who commit suicide should be buried at a crossroads so that it can serve as a warning to everybody not follow the wrong path which will le

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