The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

see also children; fathers; mothers;
relatives
peace xviii
pearls
353; treatment 345 n. f
the pen xiv n. 
4
People of the Book xviii; and God’s
grace
359, 361; lack of faithfulness to
treaty leads God to drive them from
their homes
365–6; misdeeds 64–5,
66, 430; rebels to be fought 118–19;
relations with xxiv–xxv; rewards for
faith
49; tensions with Muslims 50,
55–6; see also Children of Israel;
Christians; Jews and Judaism
‘Perfecting the blessing’
68 n. b
persecution
17–18; contrasted with
God’s punishment
252
Persians, attacks on the Byzantines
257
personal responsibility
176, 398; in
choosing good or evil
424; in conduct
325; on the Day of Judgement 322;
and
final rewards 348; in matters of
belief
14, 15, 16, 311, 314, 345; for sin
252–3
Pharaoh: arrogance
254, 290;
condemnation
245, 247–8;
destruction
301, 302–4; disbelief 134,
143, 197–9; dreams, interpreted by
Joseph
148; drowning 181;
punishment
318, 387, 395; rejects
God’s word brought by Moses
232–4;
rejects Moses
101–2, 217, 240; as
reminder to disbelievers
407; tyranny
condemned
420
Pharaoh, people: condemnation
416;
disbelief as example to those who
disbelieve currently
340, 343;
punishment
351
Pharaoh, wife, belief
381
Pharaoh’s people: destruction
229; as
disbelievers
101–3, 114, 134, 143;
punishment
318; reject Moses 217,
240, 247–8; rejection of God’s word
233–4; summoned to repent by a
believer
303–4; testing through the
mission of Moses
322; treatment
of the Children of Israel and death in
the Red Sea
8; see also Pharaoh;
Pharaoh, people
Pickthall, Muhammad Marmaduke,
translation of the Qur
 an xxvii–xxviii,
xxxviii
pilgrimages: hunting for food
67;
hunting forbidden but 
fishing allowed
77; minor pilgrimages ( umra) 18, 18
n. b; ordinances governing
21–3; rite,
as enacted by Abraham
209, 211
pledges
172, 177; observance 155, as
marks of belief
19; as received from
God
67, 69–76; taken from the Jews by
God
74–5
plenty, as a test
394
poets
232, 238
polygamy
50
polytheism x, xvii; advocation by parents
condemned
252; among Hud’s people
140; condemnation 176, 204, 254, 256,
258, 259, 318, 320, at the Final
Judgement
129, 130–1; condemned by
Luqman
261; denial 257–8, 274;
denunciation
227, 228, 229, 230, 245,
Index
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polytheism (cont.):
249, 250, 251; forbidden 177,
178; Muhammad’s opposition
to xi; rejection
239, 242–3, 284,
312, 327, 329; worthless nature
133
polytheists: beliefs refuted
92, 93;
condemnation for denying God’s
bounty
166–72; contrasted with
believers
295–9; false beliefs refuted
80–9; not to tend mosques 117–18;
prayers on behalf of hostile relatives
condemned
126; relations with in
the event of persecution xxiii–xxiv;
uncleanness
118; see also
disbelievers
prayer direction (qibla)
14 n. a, 16–17, 18
n. c,
19
prayers
254–5; avoidance of impurity 55;
cleansing before prayer
68; conduct
during war
60–1; when in danger 27;
formal prayer (salah)
5 n. a; as
marks of belief
19; rewards in the
Hereafter
23
praying for show, the result of denial of
Judgement
439
predestination
203, 249–50, 252, 253,
264, 297; God decides between
believers and disbelievers
259,
260
pride
177
privacy, respect for
225
privation, as a test
394 n. a
pronouns, use xxxii–xxxiii
property
50; disposal 50–1, 51–2, 53, 54;
management for orphans
92;
protection xxvi; restoration
56; right
use of personal property
21
prophets xvii–xviii; God’s a
ffirmation,
after removing Satan’s insinuations
from their messages
212–13; Children
of Israel’s treatment of
11–12;
continuity
311, 312; disbelievers in the
prophets condemned
252, 253–4, 255,
256; as encouragement to believers to
be mindful of God
359, 361; examples
used as support and encouragement for
Muhammad
290, 291–2; followers and
their reactions
232–7; grace 191, 193–
4; as messengers 203, 205–7; as muslim
xxiv; perseverance in spite of rejection
162–5; rejection 281–2; rejection by
disbelievers
216–17, 219, 228–9, and
their consequent destruction
239,
239–40, 241–2; rejection by the people
of
 Ad 327, 329; rejection as liars 277,
278; revelations to 65; role 56; role an
encouragement to Muhammad
136,
138–44; sending by God 29; stories
287–8; wealth discounted as a measure
of a prophet’s truth
316, 317–18; see