The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

Index
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316; Names 107; nature as unseen 4 n.
d; omnipotence
214, 311–12, 376, 416,
418, stressed in relation to disbelievers
382–3; omniscience 136, 143, 144, 226,
263, 272, 310, 363, 367, 376, in
awarding blessing and punishment
348; Oneness 119, 227, 251, 274, 393,
394, 444, and creative activity 295, and
power
215, 218, without offspring
195, 319–20; only God to be given awe
365, 367; only God to be worshipped
295; pledges given to Jews and
Christians
67, 69–76; power 128, 239,
242–3, and creation 281, 282, 284,
contrasted with the powerlessness and
uselessness of the ‘partners’
277–8,
279–80, extolled 261, and grace 227,
and grace in nature
232, and
knowledge
153–7, and providence
63–4, truths about 347, 348; and
predestination
249–50; pride in
creation, contrasted with disbelievers’
arrogance
324, 326; as protector of
the righteous
325; providence 223,
275; punishment of the People of the
Book who broke faith with
Muhammad
365–6; relations with
xix, believers and disbelievers
5–6,
7–14, 18–19, 29–31, 33, 43–8, 158–61;
relaxes devotional demands
395;
revelation
42; sole worship
demanded
441; sovereignty 36;
speech xx; submission to God as
central tenet of faith
34, 35–6;
supremacy
18; tests claims to truth
267; truth disputed 301, 303, 305;
uniqueness
166, 169; unity xvii,
xx–xxi,
203–4, 208, 213, 285, 289, 293,
307; unity disputed by disbelievers
290; wisdom and majesty 324, 326;
wish that mankind should live in
harmony
339; wonders, in the world
353–4
goddesses, disbelievers’ claims about
refuted
347–8
Gog
189, 207
gold ornaments
316, 317, 318
golden calf
8, 12, 65, 104, 200
Goliath (Philistine leader killed by
David)
29
grammar xix–xx
graves
434
guidance: for both believers and
disbelievers
325; God to provide
424; groups responding to 4; plea
3, 4
guilty, trial
250 n. a
hadhf al-jawab
420 n. c
hadith
222 n. a
ha
fiz  ix
Hagar
18 n. a
Hajj pilgrimage
420; infected by
polytheism x
hakim
39 n. a, 128 n. a
ham
 78
Haman: arrogance
254; condemnation
245, 247; disbelief 303
harraka
200 n. b
Harut (angel)
12
Hasan (son of 
 Ali) xiii
Hayyan, Abu xxxv
heads, shaving
22 n. c
Hell
35, 46, 52, 167, 175, 176, 194, 219,
230, 436; capacity 341; contrasted
with Paradise
353, 354; description
356–7, 397–8; disbelievers’ life
compared to the believers’ bliss in
Paradise
345–6; engulfs sinners 255;
entry of disbelievers into
299–300;
filling with jinn and men 144; life
293; nature 159, 160; as place of
punishment
319; as reward for
disbelievers
97, 122, 163, 189, 190,
199, 207, 265, 279, 324, 332, 334,
363, 382, 405, 408; and the Tree of
Zaqqum
179, 286, 322, 357;
unremitting nature of punishment in
Hell
304
Hereafter, see afterlife
al-Hijr, people of: disbelief
162, 164; see
also Thamud’s people
Hijra (Migration) xi–xii, xvii, xxxvii
Hira, Cave xi, 
397
homosexuality
52; condemnation
242, 253–4, 351; Lot condemns
236
hoopoe, dialogue with Solomon xx,
240
Hour, the see Day of Judgement
household behaviour
220, 222, 225
houses, entering
21
Hud (prophet)
98–9, 159, 329; rejection
235–6; role as prophet invoked as an