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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.

Bahira, 95.

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.

Koreish, 501.

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.

Christ, vide Jesus.

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,

119.

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

hunting, 82.

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.

Flood, vide Noah.

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.

89.

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.,

112.

Exhortation to the worship of God, 384;

to a good life, 186.

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.

Hami, 95.

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,

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.
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,

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the Korân, 87, n.

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.

Magog, vide Gog.

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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