ENTITLED, MEN; WHERE IT WAS REVEALED IS DISPUTED.s
IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.
SAY, I fly for refuge unto the LORD of men,
the king of men,
the GOD of men,
that he may deliver me from the mischief of the whisperer who slyly
withdraweth,t
who whispereth evil suggestions into the breasts of men:
from genii and men.
o The original word properly signifies a cleaving, and denotes, says al
Beidâwi, the production of all things in general, from the darkness of
privation to the light of existence, and especially of those things which
proceed from others, as springs, rain, plants, children, &c., and hence it is
used more particularly to signify the breaking forth of the light from
darkness, which is a most wonderful instance of the divine power.
p i.e., From the mischiefs proceeding either from the perverseness and
evil choice of those beings which have a power to choose, or the natural
effects of necessary agents, as fire, poison, &c., the world being good in the
whole, though evils may follow from those two causes.1
q Or, as the words may be rendered, From the mischief of the moon, when
she is eclipsed.
r That is, of witches, who used to tie knots in a cord, and to blow on
them, uttering at the same time certain magical words over them, in order to
work on or debilitate the person they had a mind to injure. This was a common
practice in former days:2 what they call in France Nouër l'eguillette, and the
knots which the wizards in the northern parts tie, when they sell mariners a
wind (if the stories told of them be true), are also relics of the same
superstition.
The commentators relate that Lobeid, a Jew, with the assistance of his
daughters, bewitched Mohammed, by tying eleven knots on a cord, which they hid
in a well; whereupon Mohammed falling ill, GOD revealed this chapter and the
following, and Gabriel acquainted him with the use he was to make of them, and
of the place where the cord was hidden: according to whose directions the
prophet sent Ali to fetch the cord, and the same being brought, he repeated
the two chapters over it, and at every verse (for they consist of eleven) a
knot was loosed, till on finishing the last words, he was entirely freed from
the charm.3
s This chapter was revealed on the same occasion and at the same time
with the former.
t i.e., The devil; who withdraweth when a man mentioneth GOD, or hath
recourse to his protection.
1 Al Beidâwi. 2 Vide Virgil. in Pharmaceutria. 3 Al
Beidâwi, Jallalo'ddin.
FINIS
AN INDEX
OF THE
PRINCIPAL MATTERS CONTAINED IN THE KORAN
AND THE NOTES THEREON.
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AARON, vide Moses.
Al Abbâs, one of Mohammed's uncles, taken at Bedr, and obliged to ransom
himself, 132, n.; professes Islâm, 133, n.; confesses a passage of the Korân
to
be fulfilled in respect to himself, 133, n.; remarkable for his loud
voice, 137, n.
Abda'lhareth, a son of Adam, so named Abda'llah Dhu'lbajadin, 146, n.
Abda'llah Ebn Obba Solûl, the hypocrite, admired for his person and eloquence,
406, n.; threatens to drive Mohammed from Medina, ib.; raises and
inflames a scandalous story of Ayesha, 264, n.; is present at an
interview between Mohammed and his adversaries, 312, n.; occasions a
quarrel, 382, n.; promises to assist the Nadirites, but fails them, 406,
n.; endeavours to debauch Mohammed's men at Ohod, 45, n.; excused
from going on the expedition to Tabûc, 140, n.; desires Mohammed's
prayers in his last sickness, 144; and to be buried in the prophet's
shirt, 144, n.
Abda'llah Ebn Omm Machîm, a blind man, occasions a passage of the Korân, 437,
n.
Abda'llah Ebn Rawâha, rebukes Ebn Obba, 382, n.
Abda'llah Ebn Saad, one of Mohammed's amanuenses, imagines himself inspired,
and corrupts the Korân, 97, n.; apostatizes and is proscribed, but
escapes with life, ib.
Abda'llah Ebn Salâm, a Jew, intimate with Mohammed, his honesty, 40, n.;
supposed to have assisted in composing the Korân, 203, n.; confounded by
Dr. Prideaux with Salmân, the Persian, ib.; commended for his knowledge
and faith, 71.
Abd Menâf, a dispute between his descendants and the Sahmites, 454, n.
Abda'lrahmân Ebn Awf, one of Mohammed's first converts, P. D., 33; an instance
of his charity, 143, n.
Abel, vide Cain; his ram sacrificed by Abraham, 337, n.
Abraha al Ashram, King of Yaman, his expedition against Mecca; the occasion,
and success thereof, 455, n., &c.
Abraham, the patriarch, an idolater in his youth, 95, n.; how he came to the
knowledge of the true God, ib.; demolishes the idols of the Chaldeans, 245;
preaches to his people, 298; his religion commended, 14, 15, 42, 104;
disputes with Nimrod, 28; escapes the fire into which he was thrown
by Nimrod's order, 246; his praying for his father, 148, 408; desires to
be convinced of the resurrection, 28; his sacrifice of birds, 29;
entertains the angels, 165, 386; receives the promise of Isaac, 165;
called the friend of God, 67; is miraculously supplied by the changing of
sand into meal, ib. n.; his sacrifice of his son, 337; praises God for
Ismael and Isaac, 189; commanded, together with Ismael, to build and
cleanse the Caaba, 14; prays to God to raise up a prophet of their seed,
and for the plenty and security of Mecca, ib.; bequeaths the religion of
Islâm to his children, ib.
Abu Amer, vide Amer, &c.
Ad, a potent tribe of Arabs, destroyed for their infidelity, 111, 258, 278,
356, 373, 367, 446. Vide Hûd.
Adam, traditions concerning his creation, 4, n., 208, n., 432, n.; worshipped
by the angels, 4, 105, 192, 212, 221, 343; his fall, 5, 106; repents and
prays, 5; meets Eve at Mount Arafat, 5, n.; retires with her to Ceylon,
ib.; their stature, ib.; his posterity extracted from his loins by God to
acknowledge him for their Lord, 122, n.; names his eldest son as
directed by the devil, 124, n.
Adoption creates no matrimonial impediment, 312.
Adulterers, Mohammed's sentence against them, 34, 78, n.
Adultery, its punishment, 34, 57; what evidence required to convict a woman of
it, 55.
Adversaries, the dispute of two terminated by David, 341.
Ahmed, the name under which Mohammed was foretold by Christ, 410.
Al Ahkâf, the habitation of the Adites, 371.
Aila, or Elath, the Sabbath-breakers there changed into apes, 8, 121.
Al Akhnas, a hypocrite, 22, n., 420, n.
Alexander, vide Dhu'lkarnein.
Ali is sent to Mecca to publish part of the Korân, 134, n.; the abstinence and
charity of him and his family, 432, n.
Allât, an idol of the Koreish, 67, 390.
Alms recommended, 6, 13, 23, 102, 141; the punishment of not giving alms, in
the next life, 50, n.
Amena, Mohammed's mother; he is not permitted to pray for her, 148.
Amer and Arbad attempt to kill Mohammed, and their punishment, 182, n.
Amer (Abu), a Christian monk, and violent enemy to Mohammed, 147, n.
Amer (Banu), their abstinence on the pilgrimage, 107, n.
Ammâr Ebn Yâser tortured by the Koreish on account of his fatih, 204, n.
Amru Ebn Lohai, the great introducer of idolatry among the Arabs, 102, 151, n.
Amru (Banu) build a mosque at Koba, 147, n.
Anam, the name of Lokmân's son, 307, n.
Angel of death, vide Azraïl.
Angels, their original, 105, 343; worship Adam, vide Adam; impeccable, 221,
n.; of different forms and orders, 326; not the objects of worship, 256; nor
ought to be hated, 11; the number of them which support God's throne,
422; are deputed to take an account of men's actions, 384; some of
them appointed to take the souls of men, 436; to preside over hell, and
to keep guard against the devils, 430; assist the Moslems at Bedr,
32, 131; believed by the Arabs to be daughters of God, 67, 199, &c.;
appear to Abraham and Lot, 165, 166, 386.
Animals, irrational, will be raised at the resurrection and judged, 92, n.;
created of water, 268.
Ans Ebn al Nadar, his behaviour at Ohod, 46, n.
Ansârs, or helpers, who, 146, n.; three of them excommunicated for refusing to
attend Mohammed to Tabûc, 148.
Ants, the valley of, 284; their queen's speech to them on the approach of
Solomon's army, ib.
Apostles were not believed who wrought miracles, 50; those before Mohammed
accused likewise of imposture, 51, 91; of Christ, 38; two of them sent to
preach at Antioch, 330.
Apparel, what kind ought to be worn by those who approach the divine presence,
107.
Arabians, their acuteness, 104; their customs in relation to divorce, 312, n.;
to adoption, ib.; in burying their daughters alive, 101, 438; their
superstitions in relation to eating, 101, &c., 270; and in relation to
cattle, 67, 86; used to worship naked, and why, 107, n.; their injustice
to orphans and women, 68, n.; deem the birth of a daughter a misfortune,
199, n.; the reconciliation of their tribes deemed miraculous, 132, n.;
quit their new religion in great numbers on Mohammed's death, 80.
Arabs of the Desert more obstinate, 145.
Al Arâf, what, 105, n.
Arafat, Mount, why so called, 5, n.; the procession thereto, 21.
Arabad, vide Amer.
Al Arem, the inundation of, 323, n.
Ark of Israel taken by the Amalekites, 17, n.
Arrows for divination forbidden, 84.
Al As Ebn Wayel, an enemy of Mohammed's, 194, 232.
Asaf, Solomon's vizir, 312, n.
Asem, his charity, 143, n.
Ashadd (Abu'l), his extraordinary strength, 447, n.
Ashama, king of Ethiopia, embraces Mohammedism, 83, n.; prayed for after his
death by Mohammed, 52.
Asia, the wife of Pharaoh, marytred by her husband for believing in Moses,
417, n.; is taken alive into paradise, ib.; one of the four perfect women,
418.
Aslam, 378, n.
Astrology, hinted at, 52.
Al Aswad al Ansi, the false prophet, 80, n.
Al Aswad Ebn Abd Yaghuth, al Aswad Ebn al Motalleb, two of Mohammed's enemies,
194.
Aws and Khazraj, their enmity, 43, n.
Ayesha, Mohammed's wife; the story of her accusation, 263, n.
Azraïl, the angel of death, why appointed to that office, 4, n.; a story of
him and Solomon, 309, n.
Azer, the name given to Terah, Abraham's father, 95, n.
BAAL, the chief idol of the Chaldeans, 245, n.
Babel, the tower of, destroyed, 197, n.
Backbiting, vide Slander.
Bahira, 86.
Bakhtnasr, vide Nebuchadnezzar.
Balaam, his punishment for cursing the Israelites, 122, n.
Balkîs, queen of Saba, visits Solomon, and her reception, 286; her legs hairy,
ib.; marries Solomon, ib.
Barnabas, his apocryphal gospel, some extracts thence, 38, n., 106, n.
Al Barzakh, what, 261, n.
Becca, the same with Mecca, 42.
Becr (Abu) attends Mohammed in his flight from Mecca, 139, n.; bears testimony
to the truth of Mohammed's journey to heaven, 211, n.; his wager
with Obba Ebn Khalf, 302, n.; strikes a Jew on the face for speaking
irreverently of God, 51, n.; gives all he has towards the expedition of
Tabûc, 144, n.; purchases Belâl, 448, n.; commpared to Abraham, 132, n.
Bedr, Mohammed's victory there, 32, 45, &c.
Bees, made use of as a similitude, 200.
Believers; the sincere ones, described, 256; their reward, 60; their sentence,
108.
Benjamin, son of Jacob, 176, &c.
Birds, omens taken from them, 208, n.
Blessed, their future happiness described, 333, 366.
Blood forbidden, 18.
Boâth, the battle of, 43, n.
Bodeil, a dispute concerning his effects, occasions a passage of the Korân,
86.
Boheira, the monk, 203.
Bribery to pervert justice forbidden, 20.
Burden, every soul to bear its own, 327.
CAAB Ebn al Alshraf, a Jew, Mohammed's inveterate enemy, 40, n., 184, n.;
slain by his means, ib., 404, n.; mistaken by Dr. Prideaux for another
person, 41, n.
Caab Ebn Asad, persuades the Jews in league with Mohammed to desert him, 315,
n.
Al Caaba, appointed for a place of worship, 141, 252; built and cleansed by
Abraham and Ismael, 14; the keys of it returned to Othmân Ebn Telha, 60,
n.
Cafûr, a fountain in paradise, 432.
Cain and Abel, their sacrifices, 76; Cain kills his brother, 77; instructed by
a raven to bury him, ib.
Caleb, vide Joshua.
Calf, the golden, of what and by whom made, 6; animated, ib.; worshipped by
the Israelites, ib.
Calumny forbidden, 70.
Camels, an instance of God's wisdom, 445; appointed for sacrifice, 434; Jacob
abstains from their flesh and milk, 42, n.
Canaan, an unbelieving son of Noah, 162; caravans of purveyors sent out by the
Koreish, 456.
Carrion forbidden to be eaten, 18.
Cattle, their use, 102, 354; superstitions of the old Arabs concerning them,
86, 102, &c.
Al Cawthar, a river in paradise, 457.
Ceylon, the Isle of, vide Serendib.
Charity recommended, 58, 432.
Chastity commended, 74.
Children, to inherit their parents substance, 25, 53.
Christ, vide Jesus.
Christians declared infidels, 75; and enemies of the Moslems, ib. Vide Jews.
Collars to be worn by the unbelievers in the life to come, 181.
Commandments given the Jews, 215, n.
Commerce from God, 258.
Companions of God, what, 101.
Congealed blood, the matter of which man is created, 450.
Contracts to be performed, 73.
Cow ordered to be sacrificed by the Israelites, 8.
Creation, some account of it, 355.
Crimes to be punished with death, 209.
DAVID kills Goliah, 27, 207; his extraordinary devotion, 340; the birds and
mountains sing praises with him, 322; makes breastplates, 27; his
repentance for taking the wife of Uriah, 341; his and Solomon's
judgment, 247.
Days appointed to commemorate God, 252.
Dead body raised to life by a part of the sacrificed Cow, 8.
Debtors to be mercifully dealt with, 30.
Devil, vide Eblis and Satan; the occasion of his fall, 5, 105.
Devils included under the name Genii, 100; the patrons of unbelievers, 50,
107, 282; their plot to defame Solomon, 12; were permitted to enter all the
seven heavens till the birth of Christ, 192.
Dhu'lkarnein, who he was, 225, n.; builds a wall to prevent the incursions of
Gog and Magog, 226.
Dhu'lkefl, the prophet, opinions concerning him, 248; saves a hundred
Israelites from slaughter, 343.
Dhu'lnûn, vide Jonas.
Dhu Nowâs, king of Yaman, a Jew, persecutes the Christians, 442.
Disputes to be carried on with mildness, 300.
Ditch, War of the, 313.
Divorce, laws concerning it, 24, 54, 318, 414.
Dogs, &c., allowed to be trained up for hunting, 74.
Al Dorâb, the celestial mode of the Caaba, 388, n.
Drink of the damned, 94.
Dying persons, what part of the Korân is usually read to them, 330, n.
EARTH, its creation, 355; remonstrates against the creation of man, 4, n.; is
kept steady by the mountains, 196, 307.
Earthquake, a sign of the approach of the last day, 452.
Eblis refuses to worship Adam at God's command, and why, 5, 105, 102, 212,
221; his sentence, ib.; occasions the fall of Adam, ib.
Eden, the meaning of the word in Arabic, 143.
Edris, supposed to be the same with Enoch, 230.
Education makes a man an infidel, 305.
Elephant, War of the, 455.
Elias, vide al Khedr.
Elisha the prophet, 96.
Enoch, vide Edris.
Entering into houses and apartments abruptly forbidden, 265, 269.
Envy forbidden, 58.
Esop, vide Lokmân.
Eucharist, seems to have occasioned a fable in the Korân, 88.
Eve, vide Adam.
Evidence, vide Witness.
Evil, vide Good.
Examination of the sepulchre, 121, n.
Exhortation to the worship of God, 350; to a good life, 168.
Ezekiel raises the dry bones, 26.
Ezra and his ass restored to life after they had been dead a hundred years,
28; called by the Jews the son of God, and why, 127
FAITH must accompany good works, 160; the reward of those who fight for it,
62, 127, 135, 139, 207, 375, 409, &c.; apostates from it to be put to
death, 209; partial faith not sufficient, 69, n.
Famine afflicts the Meccans, 259; ceases at Mohammed's intercession, 260.
Fast of Ramadân instituted, 19.
Fâtema, Mohammed's daughter, one of the four perfect women, 418, n.; favoured
of God like the Virgin Mary, 36, n.; her charity, 432, n.
Al Fâtiha, the first chapter of the Korân, often repeated by the Mohammedans
in their prayers, I, n.
Fidelity recommended, 135.
Figs, their virtues, 449, n.
Fire, the manner of striking it in the east, 334, n.
Fishing allowed during the pilgrimage, 85.
Flood, vide Noah.
Food, what kinds are forbidden, 18, 73, 100, 102, 205, 270.
Forbidden fruit, what, 5, n.
Forgiveness, to whom it belongs, 316.
Al Forkân, one of the names of the Korân, 271, n.
Fornication forbidden, 55, 57; its punishment, 55, 57, 262.
Fountain of molten brass flows for Solomon, 322.
Fountains of paradise, 432, 433, 440.
Friday, set apart by Mohammed for public worship, and why, 411, n.
Friendship with unbelievers forbidden, 80.
Fruits of the earth, their production an instance of God's power, 98.
Fugitives for the sake of religion shall be provided for and rewarded, 65,
255.
GABRIEL revealed the Korân to Mohammed, 12; assists the Moslems at Bedr, 32;
appears to Zacharias, 36, n.; the angel of revelations, 12, n.; the
enemy of the Jews, ib.; appears twice to Mohammed in his proper form,
390; appears to the Virgin Mary, and causes her to conceive, 228;
the dust of his horse's feet animate the golden calf, 239; generally
appeared to Mohammed in a human form, 90; commanded to assist
Mohammed against the Koreish, 194, n.; orders Mohammed to go against the
Koradhites, 315, n.
Gaming forbidden, 23, 84.
Gânem (Banu) build a mosque with an ill design, which is burnt, 147, n.
Garden, story of the, 420.
Genii, what, 98, n.; some of them converted on hearing the Korân, 426.
God, proofs of his existence, 303; his omnipresence asserted, 403; his
omnipotence, 28, 399; his power and providence conspicuous in his works, 17,
159,
369, 434; his omniscience asserted, 66, 321, 358; knoweth the secrets of
men's hearts, 288; and of futurity, 427; five things known to him
alone, 309, n.; his goodness set forth, 22, 150, 195, 391, 394; in
sending the scriptures and prophets, 22, 100; the author of all good,
201; his word, laws, and sentence unalterable, 99, 304, 384; his mercy
set forth, 46, 275, 294, 361, 390; the only giver of victory, 46, 303;
his promise to the righteous, 306; who acceptable to him, 136; ruleth
the heart of man, 128; his tribunal, 28; his throne, 159; praiseworthy,
201, 443; his attributes, 123, n.; ought not to be frequently sworn by,
24; hath no issue, 14, 155, 261; nor similitude, 307, 344; rested not
the seventh day through weariness, 385; his worship recommended, ib.;
his fear recommended, 153.
Gog and Magog, 225, 249.
Goliah, vide Jalût.
Good works, who shall be redeemed by them, 399, n.
Good and evil both from God, 62.
Gospel, vide Jesus.
Greaves (Mr.), a mistake of his, 445, n.
Greeks overcome the Persians, 302.
Gudarz, the name of Nebuchadnezzar, 207, n.
HABIB, his martyrdom, 331, n.
Hâfedha, an idol of Ad, 111, n.
Haman, Pharaoh's chief minister, 290, 293.
Hami, 86.
Hamza, Mohammed's uncle, killed at Ohod, 45, n.; his body abused, 296, n.
Handha Ebn Safwân, a prophet, 254, n., 273, n.
Hareth (Abu), a Christian bishop, disputes with Mohammed, 39, n.
Haretha (Banu), reproached by Mohammed for flying in battle, 314.
Harût and Marût, two angels, their story and punishment, 12.
Hasan, the son of Ali, an instance of his moderation and generosity, 46, n.
Hateb Ebn Abi Baltaa sends a letter discovering Mohammed's design against
Mecca, which is intercepted, 407, n.
Al Hâwiyat, the name of an apartment in hell, 453, n.
Heathens, justice not to be observed with regard to them according to the
Jews, 41.
Heavens, the Mohamedan belief concerning them, 257, n.; guarded by angels,
426; and earth manifest God's wisdom, 242; will fall at the last day, 256.
Al Hejr, the habitation of the Thamudites, 191.
Hell torments described, 252, 398, 434; the portion of unbelievers, 44, 160;
prepared for those who choose the pomp of this life, 160; and hoard up
money, 138; shall not hurt the believers, 231, n.; will be dragged
towards God's tribunal at the last day, 446, n.; and will then be filled,
384, n.
Al Hodeibiya, the trial there, 85; the expedition thither, 378, &c.
Holy Spirit, who is meant thereby, 10, n.
Honein, the battle of, 136.
Honey, an excellent medicine, 200.
Hospitality recommended, 58.
Al Hotama, the name of an apartment in hell, 455.
Hûd, the prophet, his story, 111. See Ad.
Hunting and fowling forbidden during the pilgrimage, 73, 85.
Husband, his superiority over the wife, 24; his duty to her, 24, &c.;
difference between them to be reconciled by friends, 58, 68. See Divorce,
Wives,
Marriage, &c.
Hypocrites described, 412, &c.; their sentence, 142.
IDOLATERS compared to brutes, 274; to a spider, 300; not to be prayed for
while such, 148; their sentence, 108.
Idolatry, the heinousness thereof, 23; unpardonable, if not repented of, 59.
Idols, their insignificancy, 18, 256, 305, 324; will appear as witnesses
against their worshippers, 153; worshipped by the antediluvians, 425.
Ilhiz, a sort of food used by the Arabs in time of scarcity, 260, n.
Illiyyûn, the meaning of the word, 440, n.
Ilyasin, who, 338, n.
Imâm, the meaning of the word, 14, n.
Immodesty condemned, 266.
Immunity declared to the idolaters for four months, 134.
Imposture charged on all the prophets, 259.
Imrân, father of the Virgin Mary, 32; whether Mohammed confounded him with the
father of Moses and Miriam, 34, n.
Infidels, how they will appear at the last day, 91; will drink boiling water,
94; would have believed, had the Korân been revealed to some great man,
364; if not convinced by the Korân, will not be convinced by miracles,
99; have some notion of a future state, 288; their blasphemy, 339; to be
made war upon, 20, 22; those who die such not to be prayed for, 144,
148; forbidden to approach Mecca, 137.
Inheritances, laws relating thereto, 54, 72.
Injury, to forgive the same is meritorious, 361.
Intercalation of a month forbidden, 139.
Irem, the city of Ad, 445.
Iron, its usefulness, 401; some utensils of that metal brought by Adam down
from paradise, ib.
Isaac promised, 165; his birth, ib.
Islâm the proper name of the Mohammedan religion, 33, n.; the only true
religion, 43; the only religion till the death of Abel, 151.
Ismael, vide Abraham.
Israelites, their males slain by Pharaoh, 6; pass the Red Sea, 118; God's
goodness to them, ib., 370; miraculously fed in the wilderness, 121; lust for
the
herbs of Egypt, 7; worship the golden calf, 6, 11, 119; their
punishment, 6, 10; change the word put into their mouth at Jericho, 7,
121; commanded to sacrifice a red cow, 8, &c.; demand to see God, and
their punishment, 70; refuse to enter the Holy Land, and their
punishment, 76; their transgression, 207; desire a king, 26; cursed by
David and Jesus, 83. Vide Jews.
JACOB bequeaths the religion of Islâm to his children, 15; grows blind by
weeping for the loss of Joseph, 178; recovers his sight by means of Joseph's
garment, and goes into Egypt, 179.
Jadd Ebn Kais, 140, n.
Jahl (Abu), a great enemy of Mohammed, 251; his injustice to an orphan, 457,
n.; terrified, seeing Mohammed at prayers, 450; his advice concerning
Mohammed, 129, n.; slain at Bedr, 131, n.
Al Jallâs Ebn Soweid, 143, n.
Jalût, or Goliah, sent against the Israelites, 207, n.; slain by David, 27.
Al Jassâsa, the beast which will appear at the approach of the last day, 288,
n.
Jesus promised to Mary, 36; his miraculous birth, 36; compared to Adam, 39;
speaks in his mother's womb, 57; and in his cradle, ib.; the apostle of the
Jews, ib.; animates a bird of clay, when a child, ib., n.; performs
several miracles, but not by his own power, ib.; raises three persons to
life, ib.; causes a table with provisions to descend from heaven, 88;
his miracles deemed sorcery, 87; rejected by the Jews, 38; sends two of
his disciples to Antioch, who work miracles, 330; a curse denounced
against those who believe not on him, 39; the Jews lay a plot for his
life, but are disappointed, 38; not really crucified, ib., 70; whether
he died or not, 38; not God nor equal to God, 75, 138; but an apostle
only, 83, 27, 365; the Word of God, 36; various opinions concerning him,
229; will descend on earth before the resurrection, and kill Antichrist,
&c., 71, 365.
Jethro, vide Shoaib.
Jews, vide Israelites; particularly applied to, 5, 13; accused of having
corrupted the scriptures and of stifling passages, 5, n., 40, 59; accuse the
Virgin
Mary of fornication, 70, n.; plot against Jesus, 38; their unbelief, 11,
69, n.; covetous of life, 11; reproved for warring against one another,
10; proof required by them of a prophet's mission, 51; their punishments
at different times for neglect of their religion, 81; metamorphosed into
apes and swine for their infidelity, 8, 81, 88; pretend their punishment
in hell shall be short, 10, 34; their law confirmed by Jesus and the
Korân, 79; their laws concerning food, 103; dispute with the Mohammedans
concerning God's favour, 252; Mohammed refuses to decide a controversy
between them, 80; league with the Koreish against Mohammed, 60; demand
that Mohammed cause a book to descend from heaven, 70; a controversy
between a Jew and a Mohammedan, 61.
Jews and Christians accused of condemning one another, 13; and of corrupting
the scriptures, 40; guilty of two extremes as to their opinion of Christ,
72; none of them shall die before he believes in Christ, 70; their
different behaviour to the Moslems, 83; to be protected on payment of tribute,
137.
Job, his story, 247, 342.
John, the son of Zacharias, his character, 36; his murder revenged on the Jews
by Nebuchadnezzar, 207; the miracle of his blood, ib.
Jonâda first practises the intercalation of a month among the Arabs, 139.
Jonas, his story, 157, 338, 421; called Dhu'lnûn, 248.
Joseph, his story, 169, &c.
Joshua and Caleb sent as spies into the land of Canaan, 76.
Journey, Mohammed's to heaven, 207.
Jowâdh (Abu'l), the hypocrite, finds fault with Mohammed's distribution of the
spoils at Honein, 141.
Judgment (day of), the Mohammedan tradition concerning it, 34; described, 272,
388, 392, 422, 438; the signs of its approach, 376, 438, 250, n.;
called the Hour, 91; unknown to any besides God, 123; will come
suddenly, ib.; and inevitably, 154, 396.
Al Judi, the mountain whereon Noah's ark rested, 162.
Just and unjust, the difference between them, 360.
AL KADR, the name of the night on which the Korân came down from heaven, 451.
Kail sent to Mecca to obtain rain for Ad, 111, n.
Kârûn (or Corah), his story and fearful end, 295, &c.
Kebla, the part towards which the Mohammedans turn in prayer, 42, n.;
indifferent, 13, changed from Jerusalem to Mecca, 15, 16.
Kendah a tribe who used to bury their daughters alive, 101, n.
Keys of knowledge (the five), 309, n.
Khadijah, Mohammed's wife, one of the four perfect women, 417, n
Khaibar, the expedition thither, 378, n.
Khaithama (Abu), a story of him, 149, n.
Khâled Ebn al Walîd puts Mohammed's horse to flight at the battle of Ohod, 47,
n.; demolishes the idol of al Uzza, 347, n.; drives Acrema and his men
into Mecca, 380, n.
Khantala, vide Handha.
Khawla bint Thalâba, her case occasions a passage of the Korân, 402.
Khazraj, vide Aws.
Al Khedr, the prophet, his adventures with Moses, 223, &c.
Khobaib, his martyrdom, 204, n.
Khozâa (the tribe of) held the angels to be the daughters of God, 243, n.
Kitfîr, Joseph's master, 171, n.
Koba, Mohammed founds a mosque there, 147, n.
Kobeis (Abu), a mountain near Mecca, whence Abraham proclaimed the pilgrimage,
252, n.
Korân, the signification of the word, 169, n.; by whom composed, 203, n.;
twenty-three years in completing, 273, n.; could not be composed by any
besides God, 153; men and genii defied to produce a chapter like it,
ib., 214; no forgery, 422; sent down by God himself, 99; its excellency,
43, n., 296, 358; consonant to scripture, 160, 294; no revelation more
evident, 123; contains all things necessary, 92, 202; all differences to
be decided by it, 61; its contents partly literal and partly figurative,
32; traduced by the unbelievers, 271; as a piece of sorcery, 150, as a
poetical composition, 333; as a pack of fables, 196; the sentence of
those who believe not in it, 370; when revealed, 369; not liable to
corruption, 158; ought not to be touched by the unclean, 398.
Koreidha (tribe of), their destruction, 315, n.
Koreish (the tribe of), their nobility, 49, 456; their enmity to Mohammed,
100, n.; demand miracles of him, 184; threaten him for abusing their gods,
347; propound three questions to him, 214; some of them attempt to kill
him, but are struck blind, 330; lose seventy of their principal men at
Bedr, 32, 131; persecute Mohammed's followers, 198; plagued with famine,
260, n.; and several diseases, 194; their manner of praying, 129; make a
truce with Mohammed, 380, n.; violate the truce and lose Mecca, 377, n.
Kosai names his sons from four idols, 124, n.; the Koreish demand him to be
raised to life by Mohammed, 128, n.
LAHEB (ABU), Mohammed's uncle, and bitter enemy, 459, n.; his and his wife's
punishment, ib.
Lapwing gives Solomon an account of the city of Saba, 284; carries a Letter
from him to the queen, ib.; her sagacity in finding water, ib.
Last day, vide Judgment.
Law given to Moses, 6; confirmed by Jesus, 37; and the Korân, 5.
Laws relating to inheritances, 54, 72; legacies, 19, 86; to divorce, vide
Divorce; to murder, vide Murder, &c.
Laws of Moses and Jesus set aside by the Korân, 79, n.
Laws of God, the punishment of those who conceal them, 51, n.
Lazarus raised, 37, n.
Legs made bare, the meaning of that expression, 421, n.
Leith (Banu) thought it unlawful to eat alone, 270.
Letters, initial, explained, 105, n.
Life to come, how expressed in Arabic, 2, n.
Lobâba (Abu), his treachery, 128, n.
Lokmân, his history, 306; whether the same with Esop, 307.
Lot, his story, 113, 165; his wife's infidelity, 417.
Lote-tree in heaven, 390.
Lots forbidden, 23, 84.
MADIAN, a city of Hejâz, 113; its inhabitants destroyed, 281.
Magog, vide Gog.
Malec, the principal angel who has the charge of hell, 366.
Malec Ebn al Seif, a Jew, 40, n.
Man, his wonderful formation, 345; created various ways, 250; shall be
rewarded according to his deserts, 58; ought to be thankful for the good
things of
this life, 333; his ingratitude to God, 305; his presumption in
undertaking to fulfil the laws of God, 351; why destroyed, 169.
Manna given to the Israelites, 7.
Marriage, laws relating thereto, 56, 266; Mohammed's privileges as to
marriage, 318, &c.; apt to distract a man from his duty, 413.
Martyrs, not dead but living, 17; the sufferings of two Mohammedans, 204.
Marût, vide Harût.
Mary, the Virgin, her story, 228, &c.; free from original sin, 35,
miraculously fed, ib.; one of the four perfect women, 418, n.; calumniated by
the Jews,
70; a woman of veracity, 83.
Al Mashér al Harâm, 21.
Masúd (Ebn), a tradition of his in relation to Pharaoh, 353.
Maturity of age, 54.
Measure ought to be just, 114, 440.
Mecca, the security and plenty of that city, 42. See Caaba.
Meccans, their idolatry and superstitions condemned, 101, 301; imagined their
idols interceded for them with God, 150; reproached for their
ingratitude, 188; threatened with destruction, 356; require Mohammed to
show them the angels, 99, n.; send their poor out of the city to
Mohammed, 93, n.; hold a council and conspire Mohammed's destruction,
128, n.; applied indecent circumstances to God, 199, n.; chastised with
famine and sword, 348, n.; promised rain on their embracing Islâm, 426,
n.
Medina, its inhabitants reproved for declining the expedition of Tabûc, 149.
Menât, an idol of the Meccans, 67, 390.
Merwa, vide Safâ.
Mestah, one of the accusers of Ayesha, 265, n.
Midian, vide Madian.
Michael the friend of the Jews, 11, n.
Milk, its production wonderful, 199.
Mina, the valley of, 21.
Miracles required of Mohammed, 184, n., 215, n., 430.
Months, sacred, to be observed, 20, 73, 85, 139.
Moon split in sunder, 391.
Mohâjerîn, or refugees, who, 146, n.
Mohammed promised to Adam, 5; foretold by Christ, 410; expected by Jews and
Christians, 451; sent at forty years of age, 151, n.; complained of by
the Koreish to his uncle, Abu Taleb, 340, n.; his revelations ridiculed
by the Meccans, 152, n.; his journey to heaven, 206; enters into a
league with those of Medina, 128, n.; discovers the conspiracy of the
Meccans against his life, 129, n.; gains some proselytes of the genii by
reading the Korân, 374, n.; sent as a mercy to all creatures, 249; the
illiterate prophet, 120; excuses his inability to work miracles, 99,
182; his promise to those who fly for religion, 301, n.; accused of
injustice in dividing the spoils, 48, 141; flies to Medina, 139;
foretells the victory at Bedr, 393, n.; an account of that victory, 32,
125, &c.; loses the battle of Ohod, where he is in danger of his life,
45; reported to be slain, 46, n.; lays the fault on his men for
disobeying his orders, 47; endeavours to quiet their murmurs for that
misfortune, 46, &c.; goes to meet the Koreish at Bedr according to their
challenge, 49, n.; foretells the battle of the ditch, 315; the fear of
his men at that battle, ib.; his men swear fidelity to him at al
Hodeibiya, 379, n.; his generosity, 380; makes a truce with the Koreish
for ten years, ib.; his courage at the battle of Honein, 137, n.;
expostulates with his followers on their unwillingness to go on the
expedition to Tabûc, 140, &c.; some account of that expedition, 113, n.;
a conspiracy to kill him, 143, n., 330, n.; another attempt on his life,
from which he is miraculously preserved, 74, n.; is almost prevailed on
by the Jews to go into Syria, 213, n.; reproves the hypocritical
Moslems, 62; his mercy to the disobedient, 48; his wives demand a better
allowance, on which he offers them a divorce, 316; they choose to stay
with him, and he lays down some rules for their behaviour, ib.; the Jews
reproach him on account of the number of his wives, 185, n.; his
privileges in that and some other respects, 318, &c.; his divorced wives
or widows not to marry again, 319; his amour with Mary, an Egyptian
slave, 415; disputes in a Jewish synagogue, 34, n.; decides a
controversy in favour of a Jew against a Mohammedan, 61, n.; reprehended
for a rash judgment, 66, n.; not allowed to pray for reprobate
idolaters, 148; utters blasphemy through inadvertance, 255, n.; no
revelation vouchsafed him for several days, 219, 449, n.; enjoined to
admonish his people, 388; his near relation to the believers, 312;
demands respect and obedience from them, 270, 403; challenges his
opponents to produce a chapter like the Korân, 3; put out of conceit
with honey, 415, desires nothing for his pains in preaching, 275;
acknowledges himself a sinner, 376; commanded to pray by night, 427;
refuses the adoration of two Christians, 41, n.; refuses to eat with an
infidel, 272, in.; prophesies the defeat of the Persians by the Romans,
302; reprehends his companions' impatience, 297; and their imitating the
Christians, 84; speaks by revelation, 389; his dream at Bedr, 130; his
dream at Medina, 380; his doctrine compared with that of the other
prophets, 372; is terrified at the approach of Gabriel, 429; is
reprehended for his neglect of a poor blind man, 437; demolishes the
idols of Mecca, 214; warned to prepare for death, 458.
Mohammedans believe in all the scriptures and prophets without distinction,
15; forbidden to hold friendship with infidels, 44, 80; the hypocritical
threatened, 149; the lukewarm deceive their own souls, 377; the sincere,
their reward, 294, their description, 381.
Moseilama, the false prophet, 80, n.
Moses, his story, 115, &c., 233, &c., 276, &c., 289, &c.; his miraculous
preservation in his infancy, 235, &c.; the impediment in his speech, how
occasioned, 234, n.; kills an Egyptian, and flies into Midian, 291; is
entertained by Shoaib, 292; receives his rod from him, ib. n.; sees the
fire in the bush, 283; is sent to Pharaoh, and receives the power of
working miracles, 215; his transactions in Egypt, 115, 156, &c.; brings
water from the rock, 7, 121, n., cleared from an unjust aspersion by a
stone's running away with his clothes, 320, n.; treats with God, and
receives the tables of the law from him, 6, 118; breaks the tables, and
is wroth with Aaron on account of the golden calf, 120; threatens the
people, ib.; part of his law rehearsed, 104; reproved for his vanity,
222, n.; his expedition in search of al Khedr, ib.; his and Aaron's
relics in the ark, 27; his law now corrupted, 34, n.
Moslems, vide Mohammedans.
Murder, laws concerning it, 19, 64, 77, 210, 255.
Musulman, whence the word comes, 14, n.
Mysteries, how expressed in Arabic, 2, n.
AL NADIR (the tribe of) expelled Arabia, 404, n.
Nebuchadnezzar takes Jerusalem, 207, n.
Night, part of it to be spent in prayer, 427.
Nimrod disputes with Abraham, 28; his tower, 196, n.; attempts to ascend to
heaven, 246, n.; his persecution of Abraham and his punishment, ib.
Noah, his story, 110, 160, 279, 298, 424, &c.; his prayer, 392; his wife's
infideliity, 417.
Al Nodar, one of Mohammed's adversaries, his opinion of the Korân, 90, n.;
introduces a Persian romance as preferable to it, 306, n.
OATH, an inconsiderate one, how to be expiated, 84; an extraordinary one, 445.
Oaths, cautions concerning them, 24; not to be violated, 202.
Obba Ebn Khalf disputes against the resurrection, 195, n.; his wager with Abu
Becr, 302, n.; is wounded by Mohammed, 272, n.
Oda Ebn Kais, an enemy of Mohammed, 194.
Offerings to God recommended, 253; a large one made by Mohammed, ib
Og, fables concerning him, 76
Ohod, the battle fought there, 45, n., 47
Okail (Abu), his charity, 144, n.
Okba Ebn Abi Moait professes Islâm and apostatizes, 272, n.; publicly abuses
Mohammed, ib.; taken and beheaded at Bedr, ib.
Olive-trees grow at Mount Sinai, 257.
Olivet (Mount), Christ taken thence by a whirlwind, 39, n.
Omar, his deciding a dispute between a Jew and a Mohammedan, 61, n.; compared
to Noah, 132, n.
Omm Salma, one of Mohammed's wives, 220, n.
Omeyya Ebn Abi'lsalt, 122, n.
Opprobrious language forbidden, 382.
Orphans not to be injured, 54, 449; a curse on those who defraud them, 23; to
be instructed in religion, 54.
Ostrich's egg, a fine woman's skin compared to it, 335.
Othmân Ebn Affân sent by Mohammed to the Koreish, is imprisoned, 379, n.;
contributes largely to the expedition of Tabûc, 144, n.
Othmân Ebn Matûn, his conversion occasioned by a passage of the Korân, 202, n.
Othmân Ebn Telha has the keys of the Caaba returned to him by Mohammed, 60,
n.; embraces Mohammedism, ib
Oven, whence the first waters of the deluge poured forth, 161, n.
Ozair, vide Ezra.
PARABLES, 29, 188, 200, 220, 267, 341
Paraclete, the Mohammedan opinion concerning the person meant thereby, 410, n.
Paradise described, 184, 375, 395, &c.; where situate, 5, n.; its fruits, 3;
the portion of the distressed, 22.
Pardon will be granted to the penitent, 135.
Parents to be honoured, 209, 373; make their children infidels, 304.
Patience recommended, 53, 353; the sign of a true believer, 147, n.
Patriarchs before Moses neither Jews nor Christians, 15.
Pen with which God's decrees are written, 419.
Penitent, their reward, 148.
Pentateuch, vide Law
Persecutors, their sentence, 442.
Persians overcome by the Greeks, 303, n.
Peter (St.), his stratagem to convert those of Antioch, 330, n.
Pharaoh, his story, 115, &c., 156, &c., 289; the common title of the kings of
Egypt, 115; a punishment used by him, 340; his presumption, 365.
Phineas Ebn Azura, a Jew, his dishonesty, 40; his indecent expressions
concerning God, 51, 81, n.
Pico de Adam, vide Serendib.
Pilgrimage to Mecca commanded, 21; directions concerning it, 21, 42, 252, &c.
Pledges to be given where no contract in writing, 31.
Plurality of worlds, the belief thereof imputed to Mohammed, I, n.
Poets censured, 282.
Pomp of this life of no value, 294.
Polygamy, vide Marriage.
Prayer commanded and enforced, 6, 13, 241, 300, 303, &c.; directions
concerning it, 52, 65, 74, 213, 216; not to be entered on by him who is drunk,
59; before reading the Korân, 303; for the penitent, 348.
Predestination, 46, 208.
Pre-existence of souls a doctrine not unknown to the Mohammedans, 122, n.
Pride, abominable in the sight of God, 210.
Prideaux (Dr.) charges the Mohammedans with cruelty, without foundation, 405,
n. confounds Salmân with Abd'allah Ebn Salâm, 203, n.; his
partiality as to the story of Abraha's overthrow, 456, n.; confounds
Caab Ebn al Ashraf, the Jew, with Caab Ebn Zohair, the poet, 41, n.;
misled by Erpenius, 405, n.; misquotes a passage of the Korân, 416, n.;
mistaken in asserting Mohammed might marry his nieces, 318, n.
Prodigality, a crime, 209.
Prophets, their enemy will have God for his, 12; rejected and persecuted
before Mohammed, 91, 153; not chosen for their nobility or riches, 100. Vide
Sinai.
Prosperity or adversity, no mark of God's favour or disfavour, 446.
Punishments and blessings of the next life, 109; the manner, 138.
QUAILS given the Israelites, 7; what kind of birds they were, ib., n.
Quarrels between the true believers to be composed, 382; to be avoided on the
pilgrimage, 21.
Quietism, Mohammedans no strangers to it, 446, n.
RAFE (ABU), a Jew, offers to worship Mohammed, 41.
Rahûn, vide Serendib.
Raïna, a word used by the Jews to Mohammed by way of derision, 13.
Al Rakim, what, 217.
Ramadân (the month) appointed for a fast, 19.
Ransom of captives disapproved, 132.
Al Rass, various opinions concerning it, 273, n.
Razeka, an idol of Ad, 111.
Religion, no violence to be used in it, 28; what is the right, 452; fighting
for it commanded and encouraged, 20, 47, 62, 127, 135, 137, 254, 410; divided
into various sects, 259; harmony therein recommended, 43; whether those
of any religion may be saved, 8, n.
Repentance necessary to salvation, 55; a death-bed one ineffectual, ib.
Resurrection asserted, 211, 384, 431, 441; described, 261, 384; the signs of
its approach, 431; its time known to God alone, 310.
Retaliation (the law of), 18.
Revelations in writinng given to several prophets, 2, n.; what are now extant
according to the Mohammedans, ib.
Revenge allowed, 255.
Riches will not gain a man admission into paradise, 325; employ a man's whole
life, 454.
Right way, what the Mohammmedans so call, I, n.
Righteous, their reward, 152, 297, 311.
Righteousness, wherein it consists, 18.
Rites appointed in every religion, 256.
Rock, whence Moses produced water, 7.
SAAD Ebn Abi Wakkâs, 125, 297, n.
Saad Ebn Moadh, his severity, 132, n.; dooms the Koradhites to destruction,
315, n.
Saba, queen of, vide Balkîs.
Saba, the wickedness of his posterity, and their punishment, 323.
Sabbath, the transgression thereof punished, 121.
Safâ and Merwâ, mountains of, two monuments of God, 17.
Sasiya bint Hoyai, one of Mohammed's wives, 382, n.
Al Sâhira, one of the names of hell, 436, n.
Saïba, 86.
Sâkia, an idol of Ad, 111
Sakhar, a devil, gets Solomon's signet, and reigns in his stead. 342, n.; his
punishment, ib.
Sâleh, the prophet, his story, 112, &c., 280, &c. Vide Thamûd.
Sâlema, an idol of Ad, 111.
Salsabil, a fountain in paradise, 433.
Salutation, mutual, recommended, 63.
Al Sâmeri, the maker of the golden calf, who, 6, n., 237, n.
Sarah, wife of Abraham, her laughing, 165.
Satan, his punishment for seducing our first parents, 106; believed to assist
the Koreish, 131.
Saul, his story, 26, &c.
Sects and their leaders shall quarrel at the resurrection, 18.
Sejâj, the prophetess, 80, n.
Sejjîn, what, 440, n.
Sennacherib, 207, n.
Separation, the day of, a name of the day of judgment, 368.
Serâb, what, 267.
Serendib, the isle of, Adam cast down thereon from paradise, 5, n.; the print
of Adam's foot shown on a mountain there, ib.
Sergius, the monk, 203, n.
Serpent, his sentence for assisting in the seduction of man, 106, n.
Seventy Israelites demand to see God; are killed by lightning, and restored to
life at the prayer of Moses, 6.
Al Seyid al Najrâni, a Jew, offers to worship Mohammed, 41.
Shamhozai, a debauched angel, his penance, 12, n.
Shâs Ebn Kais, a Jew, promotes a quarrel between Aws and Khazraj, 43, n.
Schechinah, misinterpreted by the commentators, 27, n.
Sheddâd, son of Ad, makes a garden in imitation of paradise, 445, n.; is
destroyed in going to view it, ib.
Sheep, the prodigious weight of their tails in the east, 103, n.
Shem, raised to life by Jesus, 37, n.
Shoaib, the prophet, his story, 113, &c., 167.
Signs, the meaning of the word in the Korân. 5, n.
Al Sijil, the angel who takes an account of men's actions, 249.
Sin, the irremissible one, in the opinion of the Mohammedans, 10, n.; the
seven deadly sins, 57, n.
Sinai, Mount, lifted over the Israelites, 8, 11; the souls of all the prophets
present at the delivery of the law to Moses thereon, 41.
Simon the Cyrenæan, supposed to be crucified instead of Jesus, 38, n.
Sirius, or the greater dog-star, worshipped by the old Arabs, 381.
Slaves, how to be treated, 266; women not to be compelled to prostitute
themselves, 267.
Slander forbidden, 382; the punishment of those who slander the prophets, 143,
454.
Sleepers, the seven, their story, 216, &c.
Smoke, which will precede the day of judgment, 367.
Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed, 166.
Sodomy, 55.
Sofiân (Abu) commands the army of the Koreish at Ohod, 45; and the convoy of
the caravan at Bedr, 126; challenges Mohammed to meet him at Bedr
a second time, 47, n.; but fails, 49, n.; embraces Mohammedism on the
taking of Mecca, 408; expostulates with Mohammed, 260.
Sohail Ebn Amru treats with Mohammed on behalf of the Koreish, 379.
Soheib flies to Medinna, 22.
Solomon succeeds David, 283; has power over the winds, 247, 342; his and
David's judgment, 247; his manner of travelling, 284; what passed between
him and the queen of Saba, 284, &c.; a trick of the devil's to blast his
character, 12; cleared by the mouth of Mohammed, ib.; orders several of
his horses to be killed, because they had diverted him from his prayers,
341; is deprived of his signet and his kingdom for some days, 342; his
death concealed for a year, and in what manner, 322.
Sorâka Ebn Malec, the devil appears in his form, 131.
Soul, the origin of it, 214.
Spoils, laws concerning their division, 115, 130.
Stars darted at the devils, 192.
Stoning of adulterers, 34, n.
Striking, an epithet of the last day, 453.
Supererogation, 213.
Sura, or chapter of the Korân, 142.
Sun and moon, not to be worshipped, 357; are subject to God and the use of
man, 109.
Swearer, a common, not to be obeyed, 420.
Swine's flesh. Vide Food.
TABLE caused to descend form heaven by Jesus, 87; of God's decrees, 92.
Tables of the law, 119.
Tabûc, the expedition of, 139.
Taghût, the meaning of the word, 28, n.
Tâleb (Abu), Mohammed's uncle, 148, n.; Mohammed refuses to pray for him on
his dying an infidel, ib.
Talût, vide Saul.
Tasnîm, a fountain in paradise, 440.
Tebâla and Jorash, their inhabitants embrace Mohammedism, 137.
Temple of Mecca, vide Caaba; of Jerusalem, built by genii, 322.
Thálaba grows suddenly rich on Mohammed's prayer for him, 143, n.; refusing to
pay alms is again reduced to poverty, ib.
Thakîf, the tribe of, demand terms of Mohammed, which are denied them, 213, n.
Thamûd, the tribe of, their story and destruction, 111, 254, 258, 356. Vide
Saleh.
Theft, its punishment, 78.
Throne of God, 28; will be borne by eight angels on the day of judgment, 422.
Thunder celebrates the praise of God, 182.
Tima Ebn Obeirak, his theft, 66, n.
Time computed by the sun and moon, 98.
Titian, the name of the person supposed to be crucified in Christ's stead, 38,
n.
Tobba, the people of, destroyed, 368.
Toleihah, the false prophet, 80, 313, n.
Towa, the valley where Moses saw the burning bush, 436.
Tribute, its imposition. 131.
Trinity, the belief thereof forbidden, 72, 83.
True believers, who are such, 257.
Trumpet will sound at the last day, 289, 348.
UNBELIEVERS described, 325; their sentence, 17, 60, 346.
Unity of God asserted, 459.
Unrighteousness punished, 152.
Usury forbidden, 30, 305.
Al Uzza, an idol of the Meccans, 67, n., 390.
VARIETY of languages and complexions hard to be accounted for, 304.
Victory of the Greeks over the Persians foretold by Mohammed, 302.
Visitation of the Caaba, 21.
AL WALID EBN AL MOGHEIRA, a great enemy of Mohammed, was a bastard, 420, n.;
derides Mohammed for calling God al Rahmân, 123; has his nose
slit, 420, n.; his prosperity and decay, 429; hires another to bear the
guilt of his apostacy, 391; his death, 194.
Al Walid Ebn Okba, 382, n.
War against infidels, commanded and recommended, 62, 132, 375, &c.
Waraka Ebn Nawfal acknowledged one God before the mission of Mohammed, 63, n.
Wasîla, 86.
Water produced from the rock by Moses, 7.
Weight to be just, 114, 440.
Whoredom, laws concerning it, 55, 262.
Wicked, their sentence, 155, 191, 435. See Unbelievers.
Widows to be provided for, 26; laws relating to them, 25.
Wife ought to be used justly, 68; may be chastised, 25; the number of wives
allowed by the Korân, 53; their duty to their husbands, 24. See Adultery,
Divorce and Marriage.
Winds, their use, 305; subject to Solomon, 247, 342.
Wine forbidden, 23, 84.
Wills, laws relating to them, 86.
Witnesses, laws relating to them, 69, 82; necessary in bargains, and to secure
debts, 31.
Women ought to be respected, 53; and to have a part of their relations'
inheritance, 54; not to be inherited against their will, 55; to be subject to
the
men, 58; unclean while they have their courses, 23; some directions for
their conduct, 266, 382; the punishment of those who falsely accuse them
of incontinence, 263, 264; those who come over from the enemy, how to be
dealt with, 408.
Works of an infidel, will appear to him at the last day, 91.
AL YAMAMA, its inhabitants a warlike people, 379.
Al Yaman, the inhabitants thereof slay their prophet, 242, n.; they are
destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, ib.
Yathreb, the ancient name of Medina, 314.
AL ZABIR, Mount, 119, n.
Al Zacât, vide Alms.
Zacharias, praying for a son, is promised John, 36, 227; educates the Virgin
Mary, 36.
Al Zakkûm, the tree of hell, 212, 336, &c.
Al Zamharîr, what, 101, n.
Zeid Ebn Amru, acknowledged one God before the mission of Mohammed, 63, n.
Zeid, the husband of Zeinab, his story, 317, n.; the only person, of
Mohammed's companions, named in the Korân, ib.
Zeinab, her marriage with Mohammed, ib.
Zenjebil, a stream in paradise, 433.
Zoleikha, Joseph's mistress, 171, &c.
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