The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

bi ’l-ghaybi
361 n. a
birth
302 n. a
bribes, forbidden
21
bride-gift
27, 50, 52, 53, 68, 369
broadcasting, use of the Qur
 an ix–x
brothers: inheritances
66; property
shares
51
burning bush
239–40, 247; revelation to
Moses
196–7
Byzantines
257
Cain (Adam’s son)
70
calendar xi–xii, xxxvii
camel: hamstrung by the people of
Thamud
351, 423; sign invoked by
Salih
236
camels, dedication and use
211–12
captives, treatment
115
charity, see almsgiving
chastity
389
children: fathers’ responsibilities for
379;
property shares
51; respect for adults’
privacy
225; weaning when parents
divorce
26–7; see also orphans;
parents; relatives
Children of Israel: as disbelievers
7–14,
23, 103–6, during the desert
wanderings
199–200, of the
Scriptures
143; exodus 134–5, 181,
322; God’s guidance 265; and
kingship
28–9; oppression in Egypt
245, 303; rebelliousness 175; religious
di
fferences among 325; response to
God
4, 16; worship of calf 104; see also
Jews and Judaism; People of the Book
Christianity x
Christians
9; belief in Muhammad 255
n. a; claims disowned by Jesus on the
Day of Judgement
78–9; factions
among
29; as People of the Book
xviii, and Islamic relations with
xxiv–xxv, xxxvii; relations with
Muslims
34, 39–42, and pledges from
God
67, 68, 69–76; see also People of
the Book
chronology, lack of xvi, xix
combatants, and non-combatants
60
commerce, see trade
common kindnesses, neglect, the result of
denial of Judgement
439
consecration (ihram)
22 n. d
consultation (shura)
311, 314
contexts: e
ffects on understanding
xxx–xxxi, importance for
interpretation of the Qur
 an xxi–xxii,
xxiv
contrasts xx
the corrupt, identi
fication 333
corruption spreaders condemned
245
covetousness
53–4
Crashing Blow
433
creation
203, 204, 209; benefits for man
166–7, 169, 170, 171; days 307; and
God, as the activity of God
223–4,
229–30, 253, 257, 258–9, 295, 296, 357,
Index
449

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creation (cont.):
basis in God alone
277, 278, as
evidence of God’s ability to resurrect
the dead
340, 341–2, as illustrative of
God’s power
215, 261, 262–3, 281,
282, as manifestation of the power of
God
264, not to be worshipped in
place of God
309, under God’s
providence
313; levels 305; obedience
on the Day of Judgement contrasted
with the disobedience of disbelievers
415; as promptings to belief 344;
purposeful nature
322; wonders 257,
258–9, 353; see also animals; insects;
nature
dana
118 n. d
daughters: denigration of the birth of
daughters by pagans condemned
346
n. b; property shares
51; regarded as a
disgrace by the pagan Arabs
317,
attributed to God
288 n. c, 347 n. g,
348
David: cited as encouragement to
Muhammad
272, 273; given
knowledge by God
240; given
sovereignty and wisdom by God
29;
God’s guidance
86; prophetic status
178, 206; and the Psalms 65;
repentance when tested
291
Dawood, N. J. xxii n. 
17, xxiv, xxxviii;
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