The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

448
almsgiving (cont.):
24; as marks of belief 19; rewards for
377; standing of blood-relatives in calls
upon believers 266
am 346 n. a
Amina (Muhammad’s mother) x, xxxvii
amr xxxi
angels 380; ascent to God 389; blessing
239 n. b; as bringers of justice 162;
creation 277; dealing out of
punishment to disbelievers 333; deny
being worshipped 275; disbelievers’
claims about refuted 347–8; encourage
believers 309; as gatekeepers of Hell
397–8; gender xxxiii, as the daughters
of God 169 n. b, 177, 183 n. a, 195, 204
n. a, denial of the pagan belief 346 n. b,
refutation 191, 285, 288–9, 347 n. g,
348, seen as God’s servants 316–17,
318 n. b, 319; guardian angels 154; lack
of arrogance 169; as messengers of
God 166; prayers for the salvation of
believers 301–2; as receptors of men at
the Day of Judgement 341; record
people’s deeds in writing 384 n. a;
role on the Day of Judgement 228,
387; subordination to Adam 4, 7, 94–5,
163, 179, 186, 201, 293; worshipped as
gods x
anger, attribution 3 n. f
animals: garlanding 77; see also creation;
livestock
ansar xii
anxiety 389
apostasy 24, 63, 173
Arabian peninsula, spread of Islam xiii
Arabic: structures and idioms, effects on
translation xxxi–xxxii; use in the
Quran for clarity 311, 316, 323, 328;
use in Scripture 307, 310
Arabs: desert Arabs 124, 125, 127,
condemned for disbelief 335,
presumptuousness 339; idolatry 169
n. a, 169 n. b; Meccan Arabs, reactions
to the Quran 393–4, refusal to believe
revelation of the Quran through
Muhammad 237; pagan Arabs, divorce
practices disallowed 362 n. a
Arafat 22, 22 n. f
Arberry, Arthur J., translation of the
Quran xxviii, xxxviii
Ark [of the Covenant] 28
Index
arrogant, condemnation 245
arsh 136 n. b
Asad, Muhammad (Leopold Weiss),
translation of the Quran xxviii–xxix,
xxxviii
asbab al-nuzul xxii, xxii n. 16
Ascension to Heaven, and Night Journey
xi, xxxvii, 175, 179, 347
ashfaqtum 363 n. a
Ashura, Day xiii
‘associate’ xvii
ata 166 n. a
awe, given to God alone 365, 367
awliya xxxi
ayas xvii; contents and construction xxii;
introductory 3 n. c
ayat (signs) of God xvii
Azar (father of Abraham) 85
Badr (battle) xii, xxxvii, 34, 35, 43, 257
n. a; distribution of battle gains 110,
112–13, 115; pagans 366 n. a
bahira 78
bahr 190 n. a
Banu Nadir (Jewish clan) 365, 366–7
Banu Qaynuqa (Jewish clan) 366 n. a
Al-Baqara (sura) 4–33
battle, conduct 111, 113, 114
battle gains, distribution 110, 112–13,
115
bayan 353 n. b
Baydawi xxxv
beliefs; corruption 39; impossibility of
forcing belief 128, 131–2, 135;
Muhammad to recognize that he
cannot compel belief but deliver
God’s message only 311, 314;
refutation of false beliefs of the
polytheists
believers 225, 261, 262; acceptance of the
Quran 239, 248–9, 430; afterlife 176;
angels pray on their behalf 301–2;
blessings 416, 430; description 389;
and disbelievers 305, alliances with
disbelievers sometimes permitted 36;
encouraged by angels 309;
exhortations to worship of God 214;
fate 94, 96, 97–8, 122, on the Day of
Resurrection 405; forgiveness to
relatives who oppose their faith 376,
377; and God 43–8, as God’s allies
364, God’s guidance of 195, 325,