The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

dialogue xx
dietary laws 19, 41, 67–8, 76, 76–8, 89,
90–1, 173
disbelievers: activities known to God 136;
alliances with believers, condemnation
363–4, sometimes permitted 36;
amazement at the Resurrection 340;
arguments rejected 227–30; arrogance
contrasted with God’s pride in
creation 324, 326; arrogance linked
with those of previous generations and
of Satan 290–1; attempts to oppose
God and Muhammad futile 331; and
believers 305; belittling of the Quran
232; challenged as to their questioning
of God’s power over them 382–3;
claim that a true prophet would be
wealthy denied 316, 317–18; claims
about goddesses and angels refuted
347–8; classification 353, 354–5;
condemnation 239, 243–4, 410;
abandonment by God 158–61, those
who lead others astray 261;
consignment to Hell 341; denial of the
Day of Judgement 272; destruction
228–9, 231, because of their rejection
of the truth of the Quran and the
Resurrection 327–8, 329–30;
disobedience, contrasted with the
obedience of creation 415, ordained by
God 187; disputes between the
oppressors and the oppressed at the
Day of Judgement 274–5; disputes in
Hell 293; eternal torment 418;
eventual punishment 202; as evildoers,
fate delayed by God until the Final
Judgement 128–9, 130; as examples to
those who disbelieve currently 340,
341; exhorted to believe 257; failure to
see the significance of God’s signs 264;
fate 94, 95–108, 111, 112, 113–14,
122–3, 155–7, on the Day of
Resurrection 405–6; foolishness in
denying the Resurrection 389, 390;
and God’s revelation 42–3; good
actions outweighed by bad faith 331–2;
hearts hardened by God 133–4, 185;
judgement 63–4, 66, 136–43, 203, 205,
207, 207–8; lack of belief in God as
creator 256; lack of success in war
dictated by God 336; life in Hell
compared to the believers’ bliss in
Index 451
Paradise 345–6; misconceptions
regarding revelation and Muhammad’s
nature 252, 255, 256; nature known by
God 277, 280; not to be helped by
believers 251; obduracy 307–9, 310;
prayers ineffective 154; punishment
35, 36, 41, 45, 48, 153, 194–5, 210, 212,
215, 216–19, 265, 301, 324, 325–6, 377,
395, 397–8, 402, 403–4, in the afterlife
185, 189–90, for barring believers from
Mecca 209, 211, contrasted with the
rewards of believers 387, on the Day of
Judgement 271, 304, 305, 393, 394,
inevitability 289, for opposition to
God and Muhammad 362, 363, 364, of
previous generations, seen as a warning
to disbelievers in the present 350–1,
shown in the story of Moses 196;
reactions to the Day of Judgement
contrasted with those of believers
419; reactions to the giving of the
Scriptures 24; record held in their
left hands at the Day of Judgement
387–8; rejection of prophets and
punishment 162; relations with God
42–8; reminded of the fate of
previous generations of disbelievers
343–4, 376; repentance, see
repentance; response to God 4, 5–6,
7–14, 18–19; rewards 279, 313,
scoffing met with punishment at the
Day of Judgement 285–6, 286–7;
guided by own desires 325;
stubbornness and mocking of God’s
revelations 281–3; terror at the Day
of Judgement 276; as those who are
not in God’s light 223; to be left to
God’s judgement and not to
Muhammad’s preaching 385–6; to be
left to their own devices 409;
torturers condemned 416; unjust
nature 224; see also believers; Meccan
disbelievers; polytheists
disbelieving communities, punishment
379
disputes, arbitration 56–7
divorce xix, 52; attempts at
reconciliation 54; pagan divorce
practices disallowed 362; regulations
278–9; and remarriage 25–8, 266 n. a;
settlements 62–3, 270; and women’s
status xxv; see also marriage