The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

 an xxviii, xxx
day, and night, as evidence of God’s
creative power
282
Day of Gathering, see Day of Judgement
Day of Judgement
78–9, 78 n. b, 80, 90,
137, 143, 179–80, 181, 186, 187, 200–1,
201–2, 207–8, 209, 213, 213–14, 239,
243–4, 258, 340, 354, 411, 412, 431,
432, 433; arrival 319; barriers between
righteous and the damned
94, 97–8;
condemnation of disbelievers for
arrogance
328; condemnation for
those who give short measure
413–14;
creation’s obedience contrasted with
the disobedience of disbelievers
415; as
the Day of Decision
403–4; denial, by
the disbelievers
272, and its
consequences
439; description 389,
390; disbelievers’ rejections
denounced
227–8; divisions between
believers and disbelievers
259, 260;
divisions between believers and
hypocrites
360; divisions of mankind
356–8; imminence 347, 349;
inevitability
203, 274, 311, 312, 314,
325–6, 345, 346, 387; length 264;
men’s behaviour
409–10; punishment
of the Meccan disbelievers
351–2;
reactions of believers and disbelievers
234–5, 419; reality 285–6; receptors
witness against men
341; signs 350;
timing
343; timing not known to any
save God
271; tyranny condemned
421; see also Day of Resurrection; Final
Judgement
Day of Resurrection
58, 172, 178, 230,
399–400, 405–6; description 299–300,
as being smoke-
filled 321; disbelievers’
regrets
382; fate of disbelievers 296;
fate of the idolaters and the righteous
167–8; judgement and rewards 176;
man’s powerlessness
341; punishment
for the Meccan disbelievers
272; see
also Day of Judgement; Resurrection
days, declining days, and the need for
repentance
435
Days of God
158
dead: disgorged from graves on the Day
of Judgement
431, 432; resurrection
30; see also Resurrection
death
58; determination by God 80, 84;
inevitability
204
debts: conduct regarding
32; payment
51; written records, and women’s
status xxv–xxvi
destiny, God’s control
267
Devil, see Satan
devils, rebellious devils, restraint and
punishment
285–6
devotional practices, relaxation by God as
preparation for the full weight of the
Qur
 an 395
dhahara
222 n. a
dhakara
27 n. b
dhalama
271 n. b
dhikr
318 n. a
dhira
 388 n. a
dhu al-dhikr
290 n. a
dhu ’l-awtad
290 n. d, 420 n. f
Dhu ’l-Hijjah, month
420 n. a
Dhu ’l-Ki
fl: goodness 292; prophetic
status
207
Dhu ’l-Qarnayn
183, 188–9
Index
450

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dialogue xx
dietary laws
19, 41, 67–8, 76, 76–8, 89,
90–1, 173
disbelievers: activities known to God
136;
alliances with believers, condemnation
363–4, sometimes permitted 36;
amazement at the Resurrection
340;
arguments rejected
227–30; arrogance
contrasted with God’s pride in
creation
324, 326; arrogance linked
with those of previous generations and
of Satan
290–1; attempts to oppose
God and Muhammad futile
331; and
believers
305; belittling of the Qur an
232; challenged as to their questioning
of God’s power over them
382–3;
claim that a true prophet would be
wealthy denied
316, 317–18; claims
about goddesses and angels refuted
347–8; classification 353, 354–5;
condemnation
239, 243–4, 410;
abandonment by God
158–61, those
who lead others astray
261;
consignment to Hell
341; denial of the
Day of Judgement
272; destruction
228–9, 231, because of their rejection
of the truth of the Qur
 an and the
Resurrection
327–8, 329–30;
disobedience, contrasted with the
obedience of creation
415, ordained by
God
187; disputes between the
oppressors and the oppressed at the
Day of Judgement
274–5; disputes in
Hell
293; eternal torment 418;
eventual punishment
202; as evildoers,
fate delayed by God until the Final
Judgement
128–9, 130; as examples to
those who disbelieve currently
340,
341; exhorted to believe 257; failure to
see the signi
ficance of God’s signs 264;
fate
94, 95–108, 111, 112, 113–14,
122–3, 155–7, on the Day of
Resurrection
405–6; foolishness in
denying the Resurrection
389, 390;
and God’s revelation
42–3; good
actions outweighed by bad faith
331–2;
hearts hardened by God
133–4, 185;
judgement
63–4, 66, 136–43, 203, 205,
207, 207–8; lack of belief in God as
creator
256; lack of success in war
dictated by God
336; life in Hell
compared to the believers’ bliss in
Paradise
345–6; misconceptions
regarding revelation and Muhammad’s
nature
252, 255, 256; nature known by
God
277, 280; not to be helped by
believers
251; obduracy 307–9, 310;
prayers ine
ffective 154; punishment
35, 36, 41, 45, 48, 153, 194–5, 210, 212,
215, 216–19, 265, 301, 324, 325–6, 377,
395, 397–8, 402, 403–4, in the afterlife
185, 189–90, for barring believers from
Mecca
209, 211, contrasted with the
rewards of believers
387, on the Day of
Judgement
271, 304, 305, 393, 394,
inevitability
289, for opposition to
God and Muhammad
362, 363, 364, of
previous generations, seen as a warning
to disbelievers in the present
350–1,
shown in the story of Moses
196;
reactions to the Day of Judgement
contrasted with those of believers
419; reactions to the giving of the
Scriptures
24; record held in their
left hands at the Day of Judgement
387–8; rejection of prophets and
punishment
162; relations with God
42–8; reminded of the fate of
previous generations of disbelievers
343–4, 376; repentance, see
repentance; response to God
4, 5–6,
7–14, 18–19; rewards 279, 313,
sco
ffing met with punishment at the
Day of Judgement
285–6, 286–7;
guided by own desires
325;
stubbornness and mocking of God’s
revelations
281–3; terror at the Day
of Judgement
276; as those who are
not in God’s light
223; to be left to
God’s judgement and not to
Muhammad’s preaching
385–6; to be
left to their own devices
409;
torturers condemned
416; unjust
nature
224; see also believers; Meccan
disbelievers; polytheists
disbelieving communities, punishment
379
disputes, arbitration
56–7
divorce xix, 
52; attempts at
reconciliation
54; pagan divorce
practices disallowed
362; regulations
278–9; and remarriage 25–8, 266 n. a;
settlements
62–3, 270; and women’s
status xxv; see also marriage