The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

thaqal
354 n. c
theft, punishments for
71
Torah: con
firmation by Jesus 72; see also
Scriptures
torments, as punishment for Egyptian
disbelief
318
trade and trading xviii, 
53, 301 n. a;
allowed by God
32–3; permitted on
pilgrimages
22 n. e
travel, under God’s providence
313
treaties, treaty obligations with
polytheists
116–17
treaty obligations
115
Trench (battle) xii, xxxvii, 
266, 267–8
Trinity
290 n. b; belief in the Trinity
forbidden
66; denial 75
trust, given to mankind
61
truth, God tests claims to truth
267
Tubba
 , people 321, 322; disbelief 340
tyrants, condemnation by God
420–1
Uhud (battle) xii, xxxvii, 
34, 44 n. a,
45–7, 365
 Umar (Rightly Guided Caliph) xiii
Umayyads xiii
ummi
105 n. a
unzurna
13, 13 n. a, 55
 uqba 423 n. d
usury: condemnation
31–2, 259;
forbidden
44
 Uthman (Rightly Guided Caliph) xiii;
preservation of the Qur
 an xvi, xxxvii
 Uthmanic Codex xvi
al-
 Uzza (Arabian pagan goddess) 347
w-q-y (mindfulness)
4 n. c
walad  xxxiii, 
183 n. a, 195 n. b
al-Walid ibn al-Mughira
384 n. c, 397
war xviii, xxiii, xxiv
war elephants, presence in the army of
Abraha
437
war and warfare: conduct
28, 57–9, 60–1,
331; disbelievers’ lack of success
dictated by God
336; disbelievers
refuse to 
fight in case this should break
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war and warfare: (cont.):
kinship ties
332; persistence in war
commanded by God in God’s cause
333; rewards given to believers for
faithfulness in the conduct of war
335–6; sacred duty of fighting in God’s
way and condemnation of those who
hold back
119–20, 123–4, 126, 127;
self-defence in the sacred months
119
warfare
50
warhorses, God’s oath concerning
432
warnings, to be given by Muhammad,
even where they are ignored
418
wasila
78
water, fresh and salt water established by
God
353
Ways of Ascent
389
wealth: display forbidden
54; hoarding
forbidden
119
wealthy: arrogance reprimanded
384;
condemnation for preferring their
possessions to 
fighting in God’s cause
123–4; obduracy and punishment 321
weights: fair weights
142; use of correct
weights commanded
237
Weiss, Leopold (Muhammad Asad),
translation of the Qur
 an xxviii–xxix
widows, remarriage
27
winds
403; scattering winds, as proof of
the Resurrection
343
witchcraft, invocation against
445
wives: conduct towards
266; fair
treatment of
62–3; property shares 51
women: beautiful women as precious as
ostrich eggs
286 n. c; believing and
disbelieving women
380, 381; in
childbirth
154; clothing 271; divorced
women, and provision for
28;
inheritance of women as property
forbidden 
52; lewd acts between 52;
marriage
50; regulations concerning
50; relatives’ prevention of
reconcilation with divorced husbands
forbidden
26 n. b; status xxv–xxvi;
status as witnesses
32; treatment
62–3, of believing and disbelieving
women and their marriage dowries
369, during divorce 378–9, when
convicted of adultery
53, within
marriage
52, 54; with whom marriage
is forbidden
52–3
words: classical meanings xxxiii;
meanings determined by contexts
xxx–xxxi
world, end
353, 354
worldly existence, transitory nature
360
worship: kneeling posture used for
324,
325; postures in worship 428
writing, signi
ficance for the Qur an xv
n.
6
writing ability
384 n. a
wrongdoers, protected only by each other
325