PRINCIPAL MATTERS CONTAINED IN THE KORAN, AND THE NOTES THEREON.
Al Abbâs, one of Mohammed's uncles, taken at Bedr, and obliged to ransom himself, 146, n.; professes Islâm, 147, n.; confesses a passage of the Korân to be fulfilled in respect to himself, ib. n.; | remarkable for his loud voice, 151, n. Abdalhareth, a son of Adam so named
Abdallah Dhulbajadîn, 161, n. Abdallah Ebn Obba Solûl the hypocrite, admired for his person and eloquence, 451, n.; threatens to drive Mohammed from Medina, 453; raises and inflames a scandalous story of Ayesha, 288, n.; is present at an interview between Mohammed and his adversaries, 341, n.; occasions a quarrel, 418, n.; pro- mises to assist the Nadirites, but fails thein, 445, n.; endeavours to debauch Mohammed's men at Ohod, 50, n.; ex- cused from going on the expedition to Tabûc, 154, n.; desires Mohammed's prayers in his last sickness, 159, n.; and to be buried in the prophet's shirt,
ib. Abda'llah Ebn Omm Mactûm, a blind
man, occasions a passage of the Korân, 480, n.
Abdallah Ebn Rawâha, rebukes Ebn Obba, 341, n.
Abdallah Ebn Saad, one of Mohammed's amanuenses, imagines himselfinspired, and corrupts the Korân, 108, n.; apos- tatizes and is proscribed, but escapes with life, ib.
Abdallah Ebn Salam. a Jew intimate with Mohammed, his honesty, 45, n.; supposed to have assisted in composing the Korân, 223, n.; confounded by Dr. Prideaux with Salman the Persian, ib.; commended for his knowledge and faith, 79.
Abd Menáf, a dispute between his de- scendants and the Sahmites, 498, n. Abdalrahmâr. Ebn Awf, one of Moham- med's first converts, Prelim. Disc. 31, n; an instance of his charity, 158, n.
Abel, vide Cain; his ram sacrificed by Abraham, 369, n.
Abraha al Ashram, king of Yaman, his expedition against Mecca; the occa sion and success thereof, 499, n. Abraham, the patriarch, an idolater ir his youth, 106, n.; how he came to the knowledge of the true God, ib.; demo- lishes the idols of the Chaldeans, 268; preaches to his people, 326; his reli- gion commended, 15, 16, 47, 115; dis- putes with Nimrod, 31; escapes the fire into which he was thrown by Nimrod's order, 269; his praying for his father, 163, 447; desires to be con- vinced of the resurrection, 31, 32; his sacrifice of birds, 32; entertains the angels, 182, 423; receives the promise of Isaac, 182; called the friend of God, 75; is miraculously supplied by the changing of sand into meal, ib. n.; his sacrifice of his son, 369; praises God for Ismael and Isaac, 208; commanded. together with Ismael, to build and cleanse the Caaba, 16; 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, 123, 282, 305, 390 408, 490; vide Hud.
Adam, traditions concerning his creation. 4, n., 228, n.; worshipped by the an gels, 5, 117, 211, 232, 243, 376; his fall, 5, 117; repents and prays, 6, meets Eve at Mount Arafat, 5, n.; re- tires with her to Ceylon, ib.; their sta- ture, ib.; his posterity extracted from his loins by God to acknowledge him for their Lord, 135, n.; names his ela est son as directed by the devil, 137, n. Adoption creates no matrimonial impedi- ment, 341.
Adulterers, Mohammed's sentence agains them, 37, n., 87, n.
Adultery, its punishment, 37, 63; what evidence required to convict a woman of it, 61.
Adversaries, the dispute of two termi- nated by David, 373.
Ahmed, the name under which Moham- med was foretold by Christ, 449. Al Ahkâf, the habitation of the Adites, 403.
Aila, or Elath, the sabbath-breakers there changed into apes, 9, 134.
Al Akhnas, a hypocrite, 24, n., 460, n. Alexander, vide Dhu'lkarnein. Ali is sent to Mecca to publish part of the Koran, 148, n.; the abstinence and charity of him and his family, 474, n. Allâ. an idol of the Koreish, 74, n., 42.
Alms recommended, 6, 14, 23, 118, 438; the punishment of not giving alms, in the next life, 56, n.
Amena, Mohammed's mother, he is not permitted to pray for her, 163. Amer and Arbad attempt to kill Moham- med, and their punishment, 201, n. Amer (Abu), a Christian monk, and vio- lent enemy to Mohammed, 162, n. Amer (Banu), their abstinence on the pilgrimage, 118, n.
Ammâr Ebn Yâser, tortured on account of his faith, 224, n.
Amru Ebn Lohai, the great introducer of idolatry among the Arabs, 113, n., 167, n.
Amru (Banu) builds a mosque at Koba,
Anam, the name of Lokmân's son, 336, n. Angel of death, vide Azraîl. Angels, their original, 117, 376; worship Adam, vide Adam; impeccable, 243, n.; of different forms and orders, 357; not the objects of worship, 280; nor ought to be hated, 13; the number of them which support God's throne, 463; are deputed to take an account of men's actions, 421; some of them ap pointed to take the souls of men, 478; | to preside over hell, and to keep guard against the devils, 472; assist the Mosleris at Bedr, 36, 145; believed by the Arabs to be daughters of God, 74, 218, &c.; appear to Abraham and Lot, 182, 183, 423.
Animals, irrational, will be raised at the resurrection and judged, 102, n.; cre- ated of water, 293.
Ans Ebn al Nadar his behaviour at Ohod, 52, n.
Ansars, or helpers, who, 160, n.; three of them excommunicated for refusing to attend Mohammed to Tabûc, 164. Ants, the valley of, 310; their queen s
speech to them on the approach of Solomon's army, ib.
Apostles were not believed who wrought miracles, 57; those before Mobammed accused likewise of imposture, 57, 101; of Christ, 42; two of them sent to preach at Antioch, 361.
Apparel, what kind ought to be worn by those who approach the divine pre- sence, 118.
Arabians, their acuteness, 115; their cus toms in relation to divorce, 341, n.; to adoption, ib.; in burying their daugh ters alive, 112, 481; their chief idols, 137, n.; their superstitions in relation to eating, 113, 295, &c.; and in rela- tion to cattle, &c., 74, 95; used to wor- ship naked, and why, 118, n.; their injustice to orphans and women, 75, n.; deem the birth of a daughter a misfortune, 218, n.; the reconciliation of their tribes deemed miraculous, 145, n.; quit their new religion in great numbers on Mohammed's death, 89. Arabs of the desert, more obstinate, 160 Al Arâf, what, 116, n.
Arafat, Mount, why so called, 5, n.; the procession thereto, 23.
Al Arem, the inundation of, 353, n. Ark of Israel taken by the Amalekites, 30, n.
Arrows for divination forbidden, 81. Al As Ebn Wayel, an enemy of Moham. med's, 214, 254.
Asaf, Solomon's vizir, 312, n. Asem, his charity, 158, n. Ashadd(Abu’l)his extraordinary strength, 490, n.
Ashama, king of Ethiopia, embraces Mo- hammedism, 92, n.; prayed for after his death by Mohammed, 58, n. Asia, the wife of Pharaoh, martyred by her husband for believing in Moses, 458, n.; is taken alive into paradise, ib.; one of the four perfect women, ib. Aslam, 414, n.
Astrology, hinted at, 57.
Al Aswad al Ansi, the false prophet, 89, n. Al Aswad Ebn Abd Yaghuth, al Aswad
Ebn al Motalleb, two of Mohammed's enemies, 214.
Aws and Khazrai, their enmity, 48, n. Ayesha, Mohammed's wife; the history of her accusation, 288, n.
Azer, the name given to Terah, Abra- ham's father, 105, n.
Azrail, the angel of death, why appointed to that office, 4, n.; a story of him and Solomon, 338, n.
Baar, the chief idol of the Cha deans, 28,
Camels, an instance of God's wisdom. 488; appointed for sacrifice, 277 · Jacoł abstains from their flesh and milk, 47,n Canaan, an unbelieving son of Noab, 179
Babei, the tower of, destroyed, 216. n. Backbiting, vide Slander.
Bakhtnasr, vide Nebuchadnezzar.
Balaam, his punishment for cursing the Caravans of purveyors sent out by the Israelites, 135, n.
Balkis, queen of Saba, visits Solomon, and her reception, 312; her legs hairy, 313; marries Solomon, ib. Barnabas, his apocryphal gospel, some extracts thence, 42, n., 117, n.
Al Barzakh, what, 285, n. Becca, the same with Mecca, 47. Beer (Abu) attends Mohammed in his flight from Mecca, 154, n.; bears testi- mony to the truth of Mohammed's journey to heaven, 232, n.; his wager with Obba Ebn Khalf, 330, n.; strikes a Jew on the face for speaking irreve- rently of God, 56, n.; gives all he has towards the expedition of Tabûc, 158, n.; purchases Belâl, 492, n.; compared to Abraham, 146, n.
Carrion forbidden to be eaten, 20. Cattle, their use, 112, 388; superstitions of the old Arabs concerning them, 95, 113.
Al Cawthar, a river in paradise, 502. Ceylon, the isle of, vide Serendib. Charity recommended, 65. Chastity commended, 82. Children, to inherit their parents' sub- stance, 28, 60.
Christians declared infidels, 83; and ene
mies of the Moslems, ib. Vide Jews. Collars to be worn by the unbelievers in the life to come, 200. Commandments given the Jews, 236, n. Commerce, from God, 233.
Bedr, Mohammed's victory there, 36, 50, Companions of God, what, 112. &c.
Bees made use of as a similitude, 219. Believers, the sincere ones, described, 281; their reward, 67; their sentence,
Benjamin, son of Jacob, 195, &c.
Birds, omens taken from them, 228, n. Blessed, their future happiness described, 364, 404.
Blood forbidden, 20.
Boath, the battle of, 48, n.
Bodeil, a dispute concerning his effects, occasions a passage of the Korân, 96, n. Bobeira, the monk, 223.
Bribery to pervert justice, forbidden, 22. Burden, every soul to bear its own, 358.
Caab Ebn al Ashraf, a Jew, Mohammed's inveterate enemy, 45, n., 204, n.; slain by his means, 45, n., 443, n.; mistaken by Dr. Prideaux for another person, 45, n.
Caab Ebn Asad, persuades the Jews in
league with Mohammed to desert him, 345, n.
Al Caaba, appointed for a place of wor- ship, 16, 276; built and cleansed by Abraham and Ismael, 16; the keys of it returned to Othmân Ebn Telha, 67, n. Cafur, a fountain in paradise, 474. Cain and Abel, their sacrifices, 85; kills his brother, ib.; instructed by a raven to bury him, ib. Caleb, vide Joshua Calf, the golden, of what and by whom made, 7, n.; animated, ib.; worshipped by the Israelites, ib. Calumny fr.bidden.. 78.
Congealed blood, the matter of which man is created, 494.
Contracts to be performed, 81 Cow ordered to be sacrificed by the Is raelites, 9.
Creation, some account of it, 389, 390. Crimes to be punished with death, 230.
David kills Goliah, 30, 227; his extraor dinary devotion, 372; the birds and mountains sing praises with him, 352; makes breastplates, 30, 270; his re- pentance for taking the wife of Uriah,
372; his and Solomon's judgment, 270 Days appointed to commemorate God 276.
Dead body raised to life by a part of the sacrificed cow, 10.
Debtors to be mercifully dealt with, 34. Devil, vide Eblis and Satan; the occasion of his fall, 4, 117. Devils, included under the name Genii,
111; the patrons of unbelievers, 56, 118, 308; their plot to defame Solo- mon, 13; were permitted to enter all the seven heavens till the birth of Christ, 210, n.
Dhu'lkarnein, who he was, 246, n.; builds a wall to prevent the incursions of Gog and Magog, 247, &c.
Dhu'lkefl, the prophet, opinions concern ing him, 271, n.; saves a hundred is raelites from slaughter, 375, n. Dhu'lnûn, vide Jonas.
Dhu Nowâs, king of Yaman, a Jew, per secutes the Christians, 458. Disputes to be carried on with mildness
Ditch, (War of the) 342, &c. Divorce, laws concerning it, 28, 62, 348. Dogs, &c. allowed to be trained up for hunting, 82.
Fidelity recommended, 149. Figs, their virtues, 493, n.
Fire, the manner of striking it in the East, 365, n.
Al Dorâb, the celestial model of the Fishing allowed during the pilgrimage, 94. Caaba, 425, n.
Drink of the damned, 104, 105. Dying persons, what part of the Korân is usually read to them, 316, n.
Earth, its creation, 389, 390; remonstrates against the creation of man, 4, n.; is kept steady by the mountains, 215, 335. Earthquake, a sign of the approach of the last day, 496.
Eblis refuses to worship Adam at God's command, and why, 4, 117, 211, 232, 243, &c.; his sentence, ib.; occasions the fall of Adam, ib.
Food, what kinds are forbidden, 20, 81, 110, 113, 225, 295.
Forbidden fruit, what, 5, n.
Forgiveness, to whom it belongs, 346. Al Forkân, one of the names of the Ro rân, 296, n.
Fornication forbidden, 61, 230; its punish- ment, 61, 63.
Fountain of molten brass flows for Solo- mon, 352.
Fountains of paradise, 475, 483. Friday, set apart by Mohammed for pub lic worship, and why, 450, n.
F.den, the meaning of the word in Ara- Friendship with unbelievers, forbidden, bic, 157, n.
Edris, supposed to be the same with Fruits of the earth, their production an Enoch, 252, n. instance of God's power, 108.
Education makes a man an infidel, 332, n. Fugitives for the sake of religion shall Elephant, (War of the) 499.
Elias, vide al Khedr.
Elisha, the prophet, 107.
Enoch, vide Edris.
Entering into houses and apartments ab-
ruptly forbidden, 290, 294.
Envy forbidden, 64.
Esop, vide Lokmân.
Eucharist, seems to have occasioned a
fable in the Korân, 97, n. Eve, vide Adam. Evidence, vide Witness. Evil, vide Good.
Examination of the sepulchre, 145, n.,
Exhortation to the worship of God, 384;
Ezekiel raises the dry bones, 29, n. Ezra and his ass restored to life after they had been dead a hundred years, 31, n.; called, by the Jews, the son of God, and why, 152.
Faith, must accompany good works, 177; the reward of those who fight for it, 69, 140, 150, 153, 227, 411, &c.; apostates from it to be put to death, 230, n., par- tial faith not sufficient, 77, n. Famine, afflicts the Meccans, 284, n.; ceases at Mohammed's intercession,402. Fast of Ramadan instituted, 22. Fatema, Mohammed's daughter, one of
the four perfect women, 458; favoured of God like the virgin Mary, 40, n.; her charity, 474, n.
Al Fatiha, the first chapter of the Korân, often repeated by the Mahommedans in their pravers, 1, n.
be provided for and rewarded, 73, 279.
Gabriel, revealed the Korân to Mabom- med, 13; assists the Moslems at Bedr, 36, n.; appears to Zacharias, 40, n.; the angel of revelations, 13, n.; the enemy of the Jews, ib.; appears twice to Mohammed in his proper form, 427; appears to the virgin Mary, and cause her to conceive, 250; the dust of his horse's feet animates the golden calf, 261; generally appeared to Moham- med in a hunan form, 99, n.; cum- manded to assist Mohammed against the Koreish, 214, n. ; orders Mohammed to go against the Koradhites, 345, n. Gaming forbidden, 25, 93. Gânem (Banu) builds a mosque with an ill design, which is burnt, 162, n. Garden, story of the, 461. Genii, what, 109, n.; some of them con- verted on hearing the Korân, 467. God, proofs of his existence, 332, 334, his omnipresence asserted, 442; his omnipotence, 31, 438; his power and providence, conspicuous in his works, 19, 175, 404; his omniscience asserted, 73, 351, 392; knoweth the secrets of men's hearts, 315; and of futurity, 468; five things known to him alone, 338 n.; his goodness set forth, 24, 164, 214 428, 432; in sending the scriptures and prophets, 24, 111; the author of all good, 220; his word, laws, and sentence unalterable, 110, 332, 421; his mercy set forth, 51, 300, 322, 355, 428; the only giver of victory, 51, 371 his promise to the righteous, 335; wae
acceptable to him, 150; ruleth the beart of man, 141; his tribunal, 31; his throne, 176; praiseworthy, 220, &c.; his attributes, 136, n.; ought not | to be frequently sworn by, 26; hath no issue, 15, 171, 285, 370; nor simiki- tude, 335, 377; rested not the seventh day through weariness, 422; his wor- ship recommended, ib.; his fear recom- mended, 168.
Gog and Magog, 247, 272. Goliah, vide Jalut.
Good works, who shall be redeemed by them, 437.
Good and evil, both from God, 70. Gospel, vide Jesus.
Greaves, (Mr.) a mistake of his, 489, n. Greeks overcome the Persians, 330. Gudaiz, the name of Nebuchadnezzar, 227.
Habib, his martyrdom, 362, n. Hâfedha, an idol of Ad, 122, n.
Holy Spirit, who is mean thereby, 12, n Honein, the battle of, 151. Honey, an excellent medicine, 219 Hospitality recommended, 65. Al Hotama, the name of an apartment in hell, 499.
Hud, the prophet, his story, 122. See Ad. Hunting and fowling forbidden during the pilgrimage, 81, 94. Husband, his superiority over the wife, 27; his duty to her, 26, &c.; difference between them to be reconciled by friends, 65, 76. See Divorce, Wives, Marriage, &c.
Hypocrites described, 451, &c.; their sen- tence, 157.
Jacob bequeaths the religion of Islâm to his children, 16; grows blind by weep- ing for the loss of Joseph, 197; reco- vers his sight by means of Joseph's garment, and goes into Egypt, 198.
Haman, Pharaoh's chief minister, 316, Jadd Ebn Kais, 155, n.
Hamza, Mohammed's uncle, killed at Ohod, 50, n.; his body abused, 226, n. Handha Ebn Safwân, a prophet, 278, n., 299, n.
Hareth, (Abu) a Christian bishop, dis- putes with Mohammed, 44, n. Haretha, (Banu) reproached by Moham- med for flying in battle, 343. Harut and Marut, two angels, the story and punishment, 13.
Hasan, the son of Ali, an instance of his
moderation and generosity, 51, n. Hâteb Ebn Abi Baltaa sends a letter dis- covering Mohammed's design against Mecca, which is intercepted, 446. Al Hawiyat, the name of an apartment in hell, 497, n.
Heathens, justice not to be observed with regard to them, according to the Jews, 45.
Heavens, the Mohammedan belief con- cerning them, 281, n.; guarded by an- gels, 467; heaven and earth manifest God's wisdom, 265; will fall at the last day, 280.
Al Hejr, the habitation of the Thamud- ites, 209.
Hell, torments described, 275, 436, 476;
the portion of unbelievers, 49, 176; prepared for those who choose the pomp of this life, 176; and hoard up money, 153; shall not hurt the be- lievers, 253, n.; will be dragged to- wards God's tribunal at the last day, 489, n.; and will then be filled, 421, n. A Hodeibiya, the trial there, 94; the expedition thither, 415, &c.
Jahl (Abu) a great enemy of Mohammed, 274; his injustice to an orphan, 501 n.; his advice concerning Mohammed 142, n.; slain at Bedr, 144, n. Al Jallas Ebn Soweid, 157, n, Jalut, or Goliah, sent against the Israel- ites, 227, n.; slain by David, 30. Al Jassâsa, the beast which will appear at the approach of the last day, 315, n. Jawwâs Ebn Omeyya, 415, n. Idolaters compared to brutes, 299; to a
spider, 328; not to be prayed for while such, 163; their sentence, 119. Idolatry, the heinousness thereof, 25; un- pardonable if not repented of, 67. Idols, their insignificancy, 20, 287, 333, 364; will appear as witnesses against their worshippers, 168, 169; worship- ped by the antediluvians, 467. Jesus, promised to Mary, 40; his miracu- lous birth, 41, &c.; compared to Adam, 43; speaks in his mother's womb, 41; and in his cradle, ib.; the apostle of the Jews, ib., animates a bird of clay when a child, ib.; performs several miracles, but not by his own power, ib.; raises three persons to life, ib.; causes a table with provisions to de- scend from heaven, 97; his miracles deemed sorcery, ib.; rejected by the Jews, 42; sends two of his disciples to Antioch, who work miracles, 361, a curse denounced against those who believe not on him, 43; the Jews lay a plot for his life, but are disappointed, 42; not really crucified, 78; whether he died or not, 42; not God, nor equal to God, 84, 152; but an apostle only: 30, 92, 400; Word of God, 40; various
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