The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

jihad  xxxi
jinn: belief in the Qur
 an 327, 329;
classi
fication 353, 354; condemnation
308; creation 163, not needed by God
344; not the revealers of the Qur an
232, 237, 238; reactions to the Qur an
393; as servants of Solomon 292;
subservience to God
289; used as
workers for Solomon
273; worshipped
by disbelievers
275
jizya
118 n. e
Job: blessing after a
ffliction 292; God’s
guidance
86; prophetic status 206–7
John (son of Zachariah)
191, 207; God’s
guidance
86
joking, joking about God condemned
122
Jonah
128, 135, 288; God’s guidance 86;
prophetic status
207; shown God’s
mercy
385–6
Jonah’s people, repentance
135
Joseph xvii, 
145–52; God’s guidance 86;
rejection by disbelievers
303
judgement, see Day of Judgement; Final
Judgement
judges, bribing forbidden
21; women as
judges xxv, xxvi
justice: administration
56, by
Muhammad for the People of the Book
72, 72–3; bearing witness impartially
68–9
Ka
 ba 77, 345; building by Abraham and
Ishmael
15; building and pilgrimages
to x; centrality to qibla and rites of
pilgrimage
18 n. c; guardians 112;
pilgrims’ disgraceful acts
96 n. a
kafur
401 n. b
Karbala (battle) xiii
kawthar
440 n. a
Khadija (Muhammad’s wife) x–xi,
xxxvii
khalifa (successor)
7 n. a
al-Khattab, 
 Umar ibn, conversion to
Islam xxxvii
kingship, in Israel
28–9
kinship ties
50
knowing (zanna)
8 n. a
Korah, disbelief
303
Koran, see Qur
 an
la yubdi
 wa-la yu id 275 n. a
al-Lat (Arabian pagan goddess)
347
learning/knowing xiv n. 
4
legal texts xviii–xix
legislation, reinforcements
78 n. b
lesbian acts
52
life saving
71
Light, Verse
220, 223
livestock: creation for man’s bene
fit 166,
170, 284; dedication and use 211;
intended for man’s use
215;
polytheists’ regulations refuted
90–1;
see also animals
loans xxvi
Lot
141–2; blessing 288; condemns
homosexuality
253–4; God’s
guidance
86; as messenger 100;
rejection
236, 242; salvation and
prophetic status
164, 206; seeks refuge
in God
253
Lot, people
212; arrogance 290; disbelief
as example to those who disbelieve
currently
340, 344; as disbelievers
141–2; punishment 351
Lot, wife, disbelief
381
lote trees
273, 347
Luqman the Wise
261, 262
Luther, Martin xxxvii
Madina, see Medina
Magians
210, 210 n. c
Magog
189, 207
Malik (angel in charge of Hell)
319
Manat (pagan diety)
347
man: birth and resurrection
417;
Index
455

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man: birth and resurrection (cont.):
creation
163, 166, 171, 215, 305, and
ability to communicate
353, created for
toil and trial
422; denial of the Day of
Resurrection
399–400; disputes
creation by God
284; homosexual acts
52; ingratitude condemned 409, 412;
obsession with wealth condemned
434,
436; self-satisfaction 428; testing 183,
298, 401–2; see also mankind
mankind: creation
264, not needed by
God
344; divisions at the Day of
Judgement
356–8; God’s knowledge
about as shown by the receptors at the
Day of Judgement
340–1; need of
God
278; powerlessness on the Day of
Resurrection
341; unity and harmony
among
339; see also men
marriage xviii, 
220, 222–3; blessing by
God
258; commendation of 53;
forbidden degrees
52–3; intermarriage
between Muslims and women of the
People of the Book
68; intermarriage
with pagans forbidden
25;
intermarriage with those of other
faiths xxv; Muhammad’s conduct
dictated by God
270; remarriage and
divorce
25–8, 266 n. a; treatment of
believing and disbelieving women and
their marriage dowries
369; see also
divorce
martyrdom
282 n. a
martyrs: testimony
44 n. b
Marut (angel)
12
Marwa
18
Mary (mother of Jesus)
34, 37–8, 65,
66, 75, 191–2, 207, 217; belief 381;
denial of Christian claims for her
divinity
79