The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

452
doubters, see disbelievers
drawing lots 76
dying 357–8
eating 225
education xiv n. 4; use of the Quran
ix
Elijah, God’s guidance 86; 288
Elisha, goodness 292
elisions xxxi
Embassies, Year of xxxvii
emigrants 115
Eve (Adam’s wife), disobedience 95
evidence, suppression 33
evil ones, assigned as companions to
disbelievers 318
evildoers, see disbelievers
exodus 8–9, 234; Moses’ people refuse to
enter the holy land 70
Ezekiel 207 n. b
Ezra, ascribed divine sonship 119
fair dealings 177
faith: arguers against faith criticized 370;
evidence for 430; freedom, but choice
determines fate in the Hereafter 295;
purity 444; unity 34, 39
faithful, the success 370
faithfulness, as marks of belief 19
fasal 230 n. b
fasting 20; during pilgrimages 22
fath 442 n. a
fathers: responsibility for children 379;
see also parents; relatives
al-Fatiha ix, 3, 164 n. b, 442 n. a
al-Fayruzabadi xxxiii
the Feast 67, 79
feeble-minded, provision for 51
Final Judgement xvii, xix, 36, 131–3;
condemnation of the polytheists
130–1; Day of 161; and the delay of the
condemnation of evil doers 128–9,
130; timing 107; see also Day of
Judgement
finance xviii
fishing, during the pilgrimage 77
the fly 214
foetuses, development 428 n. a
food, hunting, during the pilgrimage 67
forceful chargers 407
Forest-Dwellers: arrogance 290; disbelief
as example to those who disbelieve
Index
currently 340; rejection of Shuayb
236–7
Friday prayer, observance 372–3
al-Furqan (Quran) xx, 227 n. b
Gabriel (angel) 12, 429; accompanies
Muhammad on the Night Journey and
Ascension to Heaven xi; as the Holy
Spirit 173; revelation of the Quran ix,
xiv, xv, 137 n. c, 201 n. b, 237, 347, 411,
in obedience to God 194
gambling 24, 76
Garden, see Paradise
gardens, parable of the luscious gardens
183, 185–6
generalizations xxi
God: all-pervasiveness 359; believers’
mindfulness of 4 n. c; beneficence in
granting night and day 250; bounty
166–71, 179, 182; calling upon 301,
302, 304, 305; commands, carrying out
331; creates Adam and expels him from
Eden 7; as creator 98, 128–9, 153, 154,
213, 215, 229–30, 253, 256, 257, 258–9,
261, 262–3, 264, 295, 296, 307–8, 309,
313, 357, 400, 403, 405, and also as
fulfiller of needs 80–9, and His praise
223–4, of man 401, 402, for man’s
benefit 166–7, 169, 170, 171, and
man’s ingratitude 409, proof of the
Resurrection 209, purpose in creation
327; as decider of victory in war and
distributor of booty 365, 366;
discrimination when judging believers
and disbelievers 291; disobedience
towards forbidden 269; as the
dispenser of forgiveness and
punishment 301, 302; encourages
Muhammad 425, 426; exhortation to
the Children of Israel 7–14; existence
discernible in nature 324; Face 354;
gives guidance and warning to men
424; goodness to believers, as
reinforcement of his instructions 266,
267–8; grace 361, as revelation 384 n.
b, shown in nature 162–3;
grammatical uses when speaking about
xx; invocation 3; as judge 66, 427;
justness 237; as lord of the elements
154; mercy 322; Mercy to Muslims in
sending of Muhammad 372;
munificence 305, 306, 312–13, 314,