The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

 an
xxvii, xxxviii
Ross, Alexander, translation of the
Qur
 an xxvii, xxxvii
Sabbath, obligatory nature
174
Sabians
9 n. a, 74, 210
Sacred Months
77; observance 119
sacri
fices, offering for, during
pilgrimages
22
Safa
18
safe conduct xxiv
Safwan (companion of 
 A’isha), falsely
suspected of adultery
220
sa
 iba 78
sa
 id 55 n. b
sajada
154 n. b
salah (formal prayer)
5 n. a
salam
356 n. a
Sale, George, translation of the Qur
 an
xxxviii
Salih: dialogue xx; as messenger
99–100,
159; rejection 236, 241–2, 351; role as
prophet invoked as an encouragement
to Muhammad
140–1; see also
Thamud, people
Salsabil (spring in Paradise)
401
samad
444 n. a
al-Samiri (induced some of the Children
of Israel to worship golden calf)
199,
200
Index
461

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sand dunes, place of destruction of the
people of 
 Ad 327, 329
Satan
23, 85; as the ally of disbelievers
362, 363, 364; as an evil companion
54; arrogance linked with that of
Meccan disbelievers
290;
disobedience
7, 186; disowns men
whom he has misled
367; duping of
Medinan Jews into rejecting
Muhammad
333; incites enmity and
hatred through intoxicants and
gambling
76; insinuation of evil into
the messages of the prophets
212–13;
invocation against
446; as a liar 277;
as man’s enemy
178, 179, 228, 319;
opinion of the people of Sheba
273–4;
as patron of idolaters
170;
personi
fication of danger through
temptation
162, 163; power 172;
promises false
160; rebelliousness
193; refusal to be subservient to man
94–5, 293; stoning 23 n. b; supporters
to be 
flung into Hell 235; as tempter
31, 56, 108, 175, 201, 283, of  Ad and
Thamud
254, of believers 19, 47, of
disbelievers in battle
113, of the
people of the Queen of Sheba
240;
ungratefulness
176; weakness 57;
worship condemned
62
Saul (Talut) (king)
28–9
sawm
192 n. a
Scriptures: comparison between good and
evil words
160; confirmation by the
Qur
 an 34, 40; as gift to the Children
of Israel
175, 265; given to Moses 310;
given to Moses and Aaron
205; Jewish
attitudes towards
72; Jewish scriptures,
as containing the same message as the
Qur
 an 418; meaning as a whole
known to God alone
34; non-Islamic
scriptures xxiv; origins in God
92–3;
reactions to
24; revelation after
Abraham
39; revelation by Moses
before the revelation of the Qur
 an
328; treatment by disbelievers 48; see
also Torah
self-defence xxi; allowable
314;
permission xii, 
212; permits the taking
up of arms xxii–xxiii; permitted
during pilgrimage
21–2, 24; to be kept
in proportion
174
self-destruction
22 n. b
senses, testimony against disbelievers at
the Day of Judgement
307, 308
‘sent down’ xv
sexual intercourse
25; during Ramadan
20–1
shafa
 a 58 n. a
shahid (martyr)
44 n. b
Shaytan, see Satan
Sheba, people
272, 273–4
Shi