The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

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sand dunes, place of destruction of the
people of Ad 327, 329
Satan 23, 85; as the ally of disbelievers
362, 363, 364; as an evil companion
54; arrogance linked with that of
Meccan disbelievers 290;
disobedience 7, 186; disowns men
whom he has misled 367; duping of
Medinan Jews into rejecting
Muhammad 333; incites enmity and
hatred through intoxicants and
gambling 76; insinuation of evil into
the messages of the prophets 212–13;
invocation against 446; as a liar 277;
as man’s enemy 178, 179, 228, 319;
opinion of the people of Sheba 273–4;
as patron of idolaters 170;
personification of danger through
temptation 162, 163; power 172;
promises false 160; rebelliousness
193; refusal to be subservient to man
94–5, 293; stoning 23 n. b; supporters
to be flung into Hell 235; as tempter
31, 56, 108, 175, 201, 283, of Ad and
Thamud 254, of believers 19, 47, of
disbelievers in battle 113, of the
people of the Queen of Sheba 240;
ungratefulness 176; weakness 57;
worship condemned 62
Saul (Talut) (king) 28–9
sawm 192 n. a
Scriptures: comparison between good and
evil words 160; confirmation by the
Quran 34, 40; as gift to the Children
of Israel 175, 265; given to Moses 310;
given to Moses and Aaron 205; Jewish
attitudes towards 72; Jewish scriptures,
as containing the same message as the
Quran 418; meaning as a whole
known to God alone 34; non-Islamic
scriptures xxiv; origins in God 92–3;
reactions to 24; revelation after
Abraham 39; revelation by Moses
before the revelation of the Quran
328; treatment by disbelievers 48; see
also Torah
self-defence xxi; allowable 314;
permission xii, 212; permits the taking
up of arms xxii–xxiii; permitted
during pilgrimage 21–2, 24; to be kept
in proportion 174
self-destruction 22 n. b
Index
senses, testimony against disbelievers at
the Day of Judgement 307, 308
‘sent down’ xv
sexual intercourse 25; during Ramadan
20–1
shafaa 58 n. a
shahid (martyr) 44 n. b
Shaytan, see Satan
Sheba, people 272, 273–4
Shiis xiii
ships 354; given by God for man’s
benefit 324; as signs of God’s
providence 313
shirk (polytheism) xvii
short measure, cheating by giving short
measure condemned 413–14
Shuayb, as messenger 100–1; rejection
236–7, 254; role as prophet invoked as
an encouragement to Muhammad
142–3
shura (consultation) 311, 314
Sijjin 413
silm 23 n. c
sin, committing 61
Sirius (star worshipped by the Arabs)
347, 348
sisters: inheritances 66; property shares
51
skies: collapse, as evidence of judgement
346; creation, as evidence of God’s
power 340
slaves 258; denied provisions by the
disbelievers 170; marriage with 50
n. e, 53; respect for their owners’
privacy 225; treatment 223
Sleepers of the Cave 183–5
smoke, as reference to the Day of
Judgement 321
Solomon 12; blessing 291–2; cited as
encouragement to Muhammad 272,
273; dialogue xx; God’s guidance 86;
prophetic status 206; and the Queen of
Sheba 239, 240–1
sons, property shares 51
souls: corruption 423; creation 50;
peace 421; purification 423; testing 33
spider 252, 254
spiritual and temporal rewards 249,
312–13, 313–14
successor (khalifa) 7 n. a
suicide 22 n. b
sujud 428 n. d