The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

 A isha 120, 221 n. c,
flees from Mecca and hides in a cave
xxx; Rightly Guided Caliph xiii;
preservation of the Qur
 an xvi, xxxvii
Abu Hanifa, women permitted to be
judges xxv
Abu Lahab (uncle and opponent of
Muhammad), condemnation
443
Abu Talib (Muhammad’s uncle) x, xi,
xxxvii
 Ad (Hud’s people) 159, 212; arrogance
290; condemnation 254;
wronged themselves
122; destruction
229, 327, 329, 348; disbelief 99,
139–40, as example to those who
disbelieved
340, 344; disbelief 159;
punishment
303, 308, 351;
punishment denied
387; rejection of
Hud
235–6; corruption condemned
420
Adam: angels submit to
94–5; chosen
by God
37; creation and favoured
over the angels
4, 7; disobedience 95,
201; without a father as was
Jesus
34, 38–9
 adhab 5 n. c
adna al-jilbab
271 n. b
adoption
266
adultery
220–1, 221–2; forbidden 177;
marriage rather than adultery
53;
punishments for
71 n. b
advocacy, forbidden in the event of the
betrayal of trust
61
afterlife
67, 82, 87, 285–7; contrast with
temporal life
256
Ahmad (name of Muhammad)
370
 A isha (Muhammad’s wife), accused of
adultery falsely
220, 221
 alaq 428 n. a
Alexander the Great, identi
fication with
Dhu ’l-Qarnayn
188 n. a
Ali, Abdullah Ysuf, translation of the
Qur
 an xxviii, xxxviii
 Ali (Rightly Guided Caliph) xiii
al-
 alamin 3 n. e
allies, disbelieving relatives not to be
allies [against Muslims]
118
almsgiving xix, 
30–2, 120, 177, 259, 422,
424, 425; charitable spending
(yun
fiquna) 5 n. b; commanded before
it is too late
374–5; commendation
61; before conversations between
believers and Muhammad
363;
continuation
221; during pilgrimages

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almsgiving (cont.):
24; as marks of belief 19; rewards for
377; standing of blood-relatives in calls
upon believers
266
am
346 n. a
Amina (Muhammad’s mother) x, xxxvii
amr  xxxi
angels
380; ascent to God 389; blessing
239 n. b; as bringers of justice 162;
creation
277; dealing out of
punishment to disbelievers
333; deny
being worshipped
275; disbelievers’
claims about refuted
347–8; encourage
believers
309; as gatekeepers of Hell
397–8; gender xxxiii, as the daughters
of God
169 n. b, 177, 183 n. a, 195, 204
n. a, denial of the pagan belief
346 n. b,
refutation
191, 285, 288–9, 347 n. g,
348, seen as God’s servants 316–17,
318 n. b, 319; guardian angels 154; lack
of arrogance
169; as messengers of
God
166; prayers for the salvation of
believers
301–2; as receptors of men at
the Day of Judgement
341; record
people’s deeds in writing
384 n. a;
role on the Day of Judgement
228,
387; subordination to Adam 4, 7, 94–5,
163, 179, 186, 201, 293; worshipped as
gods x
anger, attribution
3 n. f
animals: garlanding
77; see also creation;
livestock
ansar  xii
anxiety
389
apostasy
24, 63, 173
Arabian peninsula, spread of Islam xiii
Arabic: structures and idioms, e
ffects on
translation xxxi–xxxii; use in the
Qur
 an for clarity 311, 316, 323, 328;
use in Scripture
307, 310
Arabs: desert Arabs
124, 125, 127,
condemned for disbelief
335,
presumptuousness
339; idolatry 169
n. a,
169 n. b; Meccan Arabs, reactions
to the Qur