Camels, an instance of God's wisdom. 488; appointed for sacrifice, 277; Jacob abstains from their flesh and milk, 47,n. Canaan, an unbelieving son of Noah, 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. Boheira, 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 forbidden.. 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, 328.
Ditch, (War of the) 342, &c. Divorce, laws concerning it, 28, 62, 348. Dogs, &c. allowed to be trained up for
Fidelity recommended, 149. Figs, their virtues, 493, n.
Fire, the manner of striking it in the East, 365, n.
Al Dorah, 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 Ko- râu, 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.
Eden, 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.
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 prayers, 1, n.
be provided for and rewarded, 73, 279.
Gabriel, revealed the Korân to Mahom- 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 causes her to conceive, 250; the dust of his horse's feet animates the golden calf, 261; generally appeared to Moham- med in a human form, 99, n.; com- 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, 331 his promise to the righteous, 335; who
acceptable to him, 150; ruleth the heart 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 simili- 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.
Holy Spirit, who is meat 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.
Habib, his martyrdom, 362, n. Hâfedha, an idol of Ad, 122, n. Haman, Pharaoh's chief minister, 316, Jadd Ebn Kais, 155, n. 320.
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, their 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,
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. Al 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
opinions concerning him, 251; will | Inheritances, laws relating thereto, 50, 80 Injury, to forgive the same is meritorious 396.
descend on earth before the resurrec- tion, and kill antichrist, &c. Prelim. Disc., 57, 58, 400.
Jethro, vide Shoaib.
Jews, vide Israelites. Particularly ap- plied to, 6, 15; accused of having cor- rupted the scriptures and of stifling passages, 6, n. 44, 66; accuse the Vir- gin Mary of fornication, 78; plot against Jesus, 42; their unbelief, 12, 77; co- vetous of life, 13; reproved for war- ring against one another, 11; proof re- quired by them of a prophet's mission, 57; their punishments at different times for neglect of their religion, 84; metamorphosed into apes and swine for their infidelity, 9, 84, 97, n.; pre- tend their punishment in hell shall be short, 11, 38: their law confirmed by Jesus and the Korân, 88; their laws concerning food, 114; dispute with the Mohammedans concerning God's fa- vour, 275; Mohammed refuses to de- cide a controversy between them, 88; league with the Koreish against Mo- hammed, 67; demand that Mohammed cause a book to descend from heaven, 78; a controversy between a Jew and a Mohammedan, 68; Jews and Chris- tians accused of condemning one an- other, 15; and of corrupting the scrip- tures, 44; guilty of two extremes as to their opinion of Christ, 79; none of them shall die before he believes in Christ, ib.; their different behaviour to the Moslems, 92; to be protected on payment of tribute, 152.
Ilhiz, a sort of food used among the Arabs in time of scarcity, 284, n. Illiyyûn, the meaning of the word, 483. Ilyasin, who, 369, n.
Imâm, the meaning of the word, 16, n. Immodesty condemned, 290. mmunity declared to the idolaters for four months, 148.
Imposture charged on all the prophets, 283. Imrâm, father of the Virgin Mary, 35;
whether Mohamine confounded him with the father of Moses and Miriam, 38, n.
Infidels, how they will appear at the last
day, 101; will drink boiling water, 105; would have believed had the Korân been revealed to some great man, 398; if not convinced by the Ko- rân, will not be convinced by miracles, 109, n.; have some notion of a future state, 314; their blasphemy, 370; to be made war upon, 22, 25; those who die such not to be prayed for, 159, 163; | forbidden te approach Mecca, 151.
Intercalation of a month forbidden, 153. Job, his story, 271, 375.
John, the son of Zacharias, bis character 40; his murder revenged on the Jews by Nebuchadnezzar, 227; the miracle of his blood, ib.
Jonâda first practises the intercalation of a month among the Arabs, 153. Jonas, his story, 173, 370; called Dhu'l- nûn, 271.
Joseph, his story, 187, &c. Joshua and Caleb sent as spies into the land of Canaan, 83, n.
Journey, Mohammed's to heaven, 226. Jowâdh (Abu'l) the hypocrite, finds fault with Mohammed's distribution of the spoils at Honein, 156.
Irem, the city of Ad, 488. Iron, its usefulness, 440; some utensils
of that metal brought by Adam down from paradise, ib.
Isaac promised, 182; his birth, 183. Islâm, the proper name of the Moham- medan religion, 37, n.; the only true religion, 48; the only religion till the death of Abel, 167, n.
Ismael, vide Abraham. Israelites, their males slain by Pharaoh, 6; pass the Red Sea, 130; God's good- ness to them, 130, 405; miraculously fed in the wilderness, 133; lust for the herbs of Egypt, 8; worship the golden calf, 7, 11, 132; their punishment, 7 11; change the word put into their mouth at Jericho, 8, 134; commanded to sacrifice a red cow, 9, &c.; demand to see God, and their punishment, 78; refuse to enter the holy land, and their punishment, 84; their transgression, 227; desire a king, 29; cursed by Da vid and Jesus, 92; vide Jews. Judgment, day of, Mohammedan tradi- tion concerning it, 38, n.; described 297,425,429; the signs of its approach 273, n., 402, 411; called the hour, 101; unknown to any besides God, 136: will come suddenly, ib.; and inevi- tably, 170, 435.
Al Judi, the mountain whereon Noah's ark rested, 171.
Just and unjust, the difference between them, 395.
Al Kadr, the name of the night on which
the Koran came down from heaven,495 Kail sent to Mecca to obtain rain for Ad, 123.
Kârûn, or Corah, his story and fearfu end, 323.
Kebla, the part towards which the Mo- hammedans turn in prayer, 47, n.; in- different, 15; changed from Jerusalem to Mecca, 17.
Kendah, a tribe who used to bury their
daughters alive, 112..
Keys of knowledge (the five), 338, n. Khadijah, Mohammed's wife, one of the four perfect women, 458, n. Khaibar, the expedition thither, 414, n. Khaithama (Abu) a story of him, 164, n. Khaled Ebn al Walid puts Mahommed's
horse to flight at the battle of Ohod, 52, n.; demolishes the idol of al Uzza, 380, n.; drives Acrema and his men into Mecca, 416, n.
Khantala, vide Handla.
Khawla bint Thalaba, her case occasions
a passage of the Korân, 441.
Khazraj, vide Aws.
36, 144; persecute Mohamined's fol lowers, 217; plagued with famine, 284, n.; and several diseases, 214; their manner of praying, 142; make a truce with Mohammed, 416, 1; vio late the truce and lose Mecca, 413, n. Kosai, names his sons from four idols, 137; the Koreish demand him to be raised to life by Mohammed, 141, n.
Laheb, Abu, Mohammed's uncle, and bitter enemy, 504, n. ; his and his wife's punishment, ib.
Lapwing, gives Solomon an account of the city of Saba, 310; carries a letter from him to the queen, 311; her saga- city in finding water, 310.
Last day, vide Judgment.
Law, given to Moses, 7; confirmed by Jesus, 42; and the Korân, 6.
Al Khedr, the prophet, his adventures Laws, relating to inheritances, 60, 80; with Moses, 244, &c.
Khobaib, his martyrdom, 224, n.
legacies, 21, 95; to divorce, vide Di- vorce; to murder, vide Murder, &c.
Khozâa, the tribe of, held the angels to Laws of Moses and Jesus set aside by be the daughters of God, 266, n.
Kitfir, Joseph's master, 12, n. Koba, Mahommed founds a mosque there, 162, n.
Kobeis, Abu, a mountain near Mecca, whence Abraham proclaimed the pil- grimage, 276, n.
Korân, the signification of the word, 187, n.; by whom composed, 223; twenty- three years in completing, 298, n.; could not be composed by any besides God, 169; men and genii desired to produce a chapter like it, 169, 235; no forgery, 464; sent down by God him- self, 110; its excellency, 48, n. 324, 392; consonant to scripture, 176, 321, &c.; no revelation more evident, 136; contains all things necessary, 221, 273; all differences to be decided by it, 68; its contents partly literal and partly figurative, 35; traduced by the unbe- lievers, 296; as a piece of sorcery, 166; as a poetical composition, 364; as a pack of fables, 314; the sentence of those who believe not in it, 406; when revealed, 402; not liable to corruption, 175; ought not to be touched by the unclean, 437.
Koreidha, tribe of, their destruction, 345, n.
Koreish, the tribe of, their nobility, 54, 501; their enmity to Mohammed, 111, n.; demand miracles of him, 203; hreaten him for abusing their gods, 380, n.; propound three questions to him, 235; some of them attempt to kill him, but are struck blind, 361; lose seventy of their principal men at Bedr,
Laws of God, the punishment of those who conceal them, 57, n. Lazarus raised, 41, n.
Leg made bare, the meaning of that ex- pression, 462, n.
Leith, Banu, thought it unlawful to eat alone, 295, n.
Letters, initial, explained, 116, n. Life to come, how expressed in Arabic, 2, n.
Lobaba, Abu, his treachery, 141, n. Lokmân, his history, 335, &c.; whether the same with Esop, 336. Lot, his story, 125, 182, 212, 313; his wife's infidelity, 457. Lote-tree in heaven, 427. Lots forbidden, 25, 93.
Madian, a city of Hejâz, 125; its inha bitants destroyed, 307, n.
Malec, the principal angel who has the charge of hell, 401.
Malec Ebn al Seif, a Jew, 48, n. Man, his wonderful formation, 377; cre
ated various ways, 274; shall be re- warded according to his deserts, 64; ought to be thankful for the good things of this life, 365; his ingratitude to God 332; his presumption in undertaking to fulfil the laws of God, 351; why destroyed, 186.
Manna given to the Israelites, 7. Marriage, laws relating thereto, 62, 291;
Mohammed's privileges as to marriage, 347, &c.; apt to distract a man from his duty, 453.
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