The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

454
Hud (prophet) (cont.):
encouragement to Muhammad 136,
139–40
Hudaybiyya (treaty) xxxvii, 334–7, 368
humble, commendation 211
Hunayn (battle) xxxvii, 118
hunting: during the pilgrimage 67;
forbidden during the pilgrimage 77
Husayn (son of Ali) xiii
husbands, property shares 51
hypocrites: alliances with forbidden
58–9; bad behaviour censured 266,
271; and believers, divisions between
on the Day of Judgement 360;
condemnation for joking about God
122; criticisms 374; failure to support
Muhammad leads to censure 116; fate
331; intrigues 50; judgement 63–4;
Medinan hypocrites condemned 334;
munafiqun xviii; response to God’s
guidance 4
ibl 419 n. b
Iblis, see Satan
Ibn Abbas 215 n. c
Ibn Mandhur xxxiii
Ibn Taymiyya, intertextuality in the
Quran xxx
Ibn Ubayy (head of the ‘hypocrites’ of
Medina) 365, 366
idina 165 n. b
idle talk, condemnation 122
idolaters 116–17, 119; attempts to
persuade Muhammad to worship their
gods 441; castigation 209, 210, 213,
214; condemnation, for denying God’s
bounty 166–7, 169; Medinan idolaters
condemned 334, 336
idolatry x, 62, 76; Abraham condemns
205–6, 253, 287, 317; condemnation
207, 259; refuted in face of God’s
power and creation 277–8, 279–80;
rejection 234–5, 237; to be avoided
158, 160–1
Idris: grace 193; prophetic status 207
iftah 442 n. a
ihram (consecration) 22 n. d
ikhlas 444
Illiyyin 413
iltifat xx, xxxv
impurity, avoidance when praying 55
Imran, family 34, 37
Index
infanticide: female 169, 411 n. a; as a
result of the fear of poverty, forbidden
177
inheritances 50, 51, 54, 66;
misappropriation condemned 420
insan 420 n. g
insects: ants, and Solomon 239, 240;
bees, activity as evidence of God’s
inspiration 166, 170
interfaith relations xxiv–xxv
international relations xviii
intertextuality xxx
intoxicants and intoxication 24, 55, 76–7,
96 n. c
Iram, tyranny condemned 420
iron 359, 361
Isaac (Abraham’s son) 15, 161, 193, 206,
253; birth prophesied 141, 163–4, 254;
devotion to God 292; God’s guidance
86
Ishmael (Abraham’s son) 15, 18 n. a, 161;
builds the mosque in Mecca 17 n. a;
God’s guidance 86; goodness 292;
grace 193; prophetic status 207;
sacrifice 287
Islam: acceptance by Meccans xxxvii;
conversions, attempts to prevent 331;
nature xxiv; spread xiii, xxxvii
Islamic arts and sciences, basis in the
Quran ix
Ismail (seventh imam) xiii
istifham inkari 7 n. b
ittakaa 345 n. e
Jacob xvii, 145–6, 149, 151, 193, 206, 253;
birth prophesied 141; God’s guidance
86; obedience to God 15, 292
jaza 118 n. e
Jerusalem xi; Night Journey xxxvii, 175;
prayers towards 14 n. a
Jesus xvii, 371; birth and mission 34, 37,
37–9; Christian beliefs in his divinity
seen as false 69; confirmation of the
Torah 72; creation by God 217;
disownment of Christian claims on the
Day of Judgement 78–9; divinity
denied 75, 119, 133, 191, 192, 316,
318–19; divisions among his people
370; as encouragement to believers to
be mindful of God 359, 361; foretells
the coming of Muhammad under the
name of Ahmad 370; God’s guidance