The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

also messengers
providence, God’s control
275, 361
punctuation xxxiv–xxxv
punishments: for adultery
71 n. b; eternal
nature in the afterlife
200; for
persecution of Muslims by the People
of the Book
71; for theft 71; in this life
and the Hereafter
387
Qarun: arrogance
254; condemnation
245, 250–1
qasr
403 n. c
qibla (prayer direction)
14 n. a, 16–17, 18
n. c,
19
Queen of Sheba
240–1; dialogue xx
Qur
 an ix–x, xxxvii–xxxviii; acceptance
248–9; authenticity 128; belittling
232; as both joyful news and warning
239; canonization xvi n. 8;
compilation xv–xvi; consistency as
evidence of its origin
58; disbelievers
mock
217; disbelievers’ rejections
denounced
227, 230; divine origins
xiv n. 
3, 131, 162, 232, 237, not
poetry made by man
281, 284; ease of
understanding
350, 351; effects upon
believers
297; extent 190; final
revelation xiii; 
first revelation on the
Night of Glory
429; as a gift revealed
from God
279; gives knowledge about
the Hour of Judgement
319; as God’s
word
399; as guidance 175, 176–82,
187, 201; interpretation xxi–xxvi;
Koran xxvi; mercy
321; opponents
warned of punishment
165; as reading
353 n. a; recitation 180; rejection by
disbelievers
415; responses to
determine fate at the Day of
Judgement
137; revelation xi, xiv–xv,
170, 181–2, 183, 196, 200, 201, 203,
205, 210, 213, 255, 347, 357, 379;
revelation questioned by disbelievers
229; role 145; structure xvi–xvii;
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stylistic features xix–xxi; themes
xvii–xix; translations, conventions
used xxix–xxxvi, in English
xxvi–xxix; truth
94, 264, 307, 309,
324, 411, affirmed by God 387, 388,
disbelievers’ rejection and their
destruction
327–8, 329, and nobility
290, 294; see also ayas; suras
Quraysh (tribe), trading journeys
438
r-b-b
3 n. d
al-Raghib
76 n. a
rahim
3 n. b
rahman
3 n. a
rain, illustrative of the concept of
resurrection
419 n. b
ra
 ina 13, 55
Ramadan: obligations xix; observances
20–1
al-Raqim
183
al-Rass, people: destruction
229;
disbelief as example to those who
disbelieve currently
340
al-Razi, Fakhr al-Din xxxv, xxxvi
reading xiv, xiv n. 
4, xv
rebellious, allowed to stray
370
reconciliation, commendation
61
refugees, Muslim refugees, to be
rewarded by God
366
refugees from persecution, rewards
168,
173
relatives: prayers on behalf of hostile
relatives condemned
126; treatment
172; see also children; fathers; mothers;
parents
religion, unity
311, 312
religious divisions
311, 312
religious tolerance
29; at Yathrib xii
remarriage, see divorce; marriage
repentance
52, 125, 295, 297, 299;
disbelievers’ repentance, when faced by
Hell
382; and entry to Paradise 194;
essential that it take place before the
Day of Judgement
302, 306, 321, 421;
in the face of God’s punishment in this
life
384–5; futility at the arrival of the
Hour
332; God’s transformation of
those who repent
230–1; and its
rewards
249; urged on by the decline
of the day
435
Resurrection xvii, xviii, 
30, 168, 277, 302
n. a,
340, 433; affirmation 376;
assurance
178; coming 417; creation
as evidence of God’s ability to resurrect
the dead
340, 341–2; denied by the
Meccans
322; disbelievers’ denial
questioned
264, 389, 390; disbelievers
reject
216, 243; inevitability 215,
218–19, 307, 407; mistaken beliefs
about
393; proof seen in the creative
power of God
209; reality 281, 283,
427; truth, disbelievers’ rejection and
their destruction
327–8, 329–30;
winds as illustration
343; see also Day
of Resurrection
retaliation xix
retribution
177
revelation
311, 314–15
rhetorical questions xxxii
righteous, commendation and entry into
Paradise
167–8
Rightly Guided Caliphs xiii
rivers, in Paradise xxxii
Rodwell, J. M., translation of the Qur