The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

nahr  xxxii
nar
239 n. a
nasakha
212 n. a
nashaza
54 n. a
nazi
 at 407 n. a
needy, neglect, the result of denial of
Judgement
439
night, and day, as evidence of God’s
creative power
282
Night of Glory
429
Night Journey and Ascension to Heaven
xi, xxxvii, 
175, 179, 347
night-comer
417
Nimrod
416 n. b
Noah xvii, 
175; chosen by God 37;
contemporaries condemned
122;
dialogue with God xx; as
encouragement to believers to be
mindful of God
359, 361; God’s
guidance
86; preaching and prayer for
the destruction of disbelievers before
the Flood
391–2; as prophet 98–9, 133,
159, 216; receipt of the same message as
that given to Muhammad
312;
rejection
235; role as prophet invoked
as an encouragement to Muhammad
138–9; salvation 287, 350; salvation and
rejection by his own people
253
Noah, people
212; arrogance 290;
destruction
229, 348; disbelief as
example to those who disbelieve
currently
340, 344; as disbelievers
159, 216; punishment 301, 303;
rejection of Noah and their
punishment
350
Noah, wife, disbelief
381
Noah’s Ark
138–9, 216, 253, 282–3, 387
nobles, salvation
83 n. b
non-combatants, and combatants
60
oathbreaking: atonement for
76;
criticisms
370; forbidden 172; God
prevents Job from oathbreaking
292
oathtaking
25; release from 380
obedience: given to God alone
365, 367;
to Muhammad
56–7, 58, 61, 220, 224
oppressed, defence, permits the taking up
of arms xxii
oppression, punishments for
314
orphans: care
425; cruelty to, the result of
denial of Judgement
439; orphan girls,
treatment
62; property 177, and its
disposal
50–1, management 25, 92;
see also children
pagans: intermarriage with forbidden
25;
Meccan pagans, dispute about the
Index
458

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angels as daughters of God
195,
rejoicing at the defeat of the Byzantines
by the Persians
257 n. a
Palmer, E. H., translation of the Qur
 an
xxvii, xxxviii
Paradise
51–2, 167–8; admission to
Paradise includes absolution from bad
deeds
334; believers’ bliss compared to
the disbelievers’ life in Hell
345–6;
contrast between the two levels of
Paradise
354–5; description 356, and
seen as the reward of believers
332;
entry into
13, 300; entry into Paradise
preceded by persecution
24; life 283,
286, 292–3; nature in the light
of Arabic structures and idioms
xxxi–xxxii; as the objective of believers
360–1; resting place for believers 97; as
reward of believers
6, 35, 44, 49, 56,
122, 124, 125, 126, 129, 143, 155, 156,
160, 163, 185, 190, 199, 210, 213, 215,
228, 251, 255, 258, 261, 265, 279, 319,
322–3, 328, 341, 343, 379, 385, 401–2,
408, 413, 416; as reward for truthful
Christians
76, 79; as the reward of the
godly
62; as the reward of those who
repent
194
paragraphs, use in translation xxxiv
parents: property shares
51; relations
with as the mark of believers and
disbelievers
328; respect for except in
the case of disbelief
262; respect for
176; respect for and obedience to 252;