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qu. represented by five dice, 41, Ixxvi sq., 43 n.; nothng like it in 107 sq., 107 n.; sacrifice (Pañka- Arabic literature, 6, lv sq.; division bila) for the appeasement of the of the Q. in Sûrahs, verses, &c., 6, qu., 41, 120–3; four qu. the four lvi, Ixv; means "a reading,' is also corners of the earth (or the sun), called the discrimination,' 6, lvii; 41, 155, 242, 44, 498; nine or ten 9, 83; how it was written down, 6, qu., 41, 196, 296 sq. ; 43, 26 sq., Ivii sq.; its arrangement, 6, Iviii; 43-6, 91; four and four, 41, 203; different dialects and various readNorth-east, qu. of both gods and ings in the Q., 6, lviji sq.; its text men, 41, 229, 252; 44, 359; by fixed by Othmân, 6, lix ; Sûrahs means of the four qu. the gods revealed at Mecca, and those recarried Agni, 41, 268, four or six, vealed at Medînah, 6, lix-lxv; 41, 268 sq.; 42, 68, 196; East, chronological arrangement of Q., 6, Agni's region, 41, 291; decline, lix-lxv; mysterious letters at the weakness, sickness in the North, beginning of Sûrahs, 6, Ixiv sq. ; 9, 41, 348; are the seven hotrâs, 41, 175 n., 295 n.; names of the Q., 6, 368; four goddesses, the consorts lxv; revealed by the archangel of the wind, 42, 14; are the Gabriel, 6, Ixix, 13; 9,98; revealed heavenly world, 43, 9 sq.; identified in the night of power' during with the metres, 43, 45 sq.; their Ramadhân, 6, lxxiii, 26; 9, 218, names, 43, 46; Agni is the ten qu., 337; translations of the Q., 6, 43, 70, 164, 263, 263 n.; the qu. lxxvii-lxxx; abstract of the conand their rulers, 43, 100-3; ten qu., tents of the Q., 6, Ixxxi-cxviii; not five on each side of the sun, 43, composed by Mohammed, but re104; gods and Asuras contending vealed by God in Arabic, 6, cviii, for the qu., 43, 193, 195, 198, 200; 46, 83, 117, 136, 138, 182, 185, 192, the goddesses Anumati, &c., are the 194, 206, 219, 232, 261; 9, 10-13, qu., and the qu. are deities, 43, 43, 98, 122, 160, 162, 182, 190, 199, 264 sq.; seven qu., 43, 277, 314; 203 n., 205, 210 sq., 258, 300; a beheld (or discovered) by the gods, confirmation of former Scriptures 44, 16-18; four qu. belong to the of Moses, 6, cviii, 46, 254 sq.; 9, four priests, 44, 402; Northern qu. 112 sq., 203, 203 n., 225, 228; especially sacred, 49 (i), 75.
a guide, a warning, glad tidings, Quba', mosque of, first place of a mercy to believers, 6, 2, 257, 260; public prayer in Islam, 6, 188 sq., 9, 2, 13 sq., 34, 83, 99, 106, 117, 188 n.
131, 162, 167, 178, 184, 186, 205, Queen, is one of the king's jewels, 210; some verses decisive, others 41,60; lies down near the sacrificial ambiguous in the Book, 6, 47; ask horse, 44, 321 sq. and n. See also not about painful things till the King, Rulers, and Women.
whole Q. is revealed, 6, 1; a Quiescence, Quietness, Quietism, special revelation to the Meccans, see Nirvana, and Tranquillity.
6, 125 sq., when the Q. is read, Qurâidhah, Jews of, 6, xxxviij sq.; listen thereto and keep silence, 6, 9, 274 n.
163; Meccans challenged to bring Qurâis, tribe of, 6, xvi, xxvi, xxviii, a sûrah like it, 6, 197 ; this Q. could xxxiii, xlix, lix, 97 n., 165 n., 249 n.; not have been devised by any beside God, 9, 17 n., 62 n., 69 n., 236 n., 254 n., 6, 197; God a witness at reciting 320 n.; their prosperity, 6, liii, Ixi; a Q., 6, 199 sq., 199 n.; confirms 9, 342.
the unity of God, 6, 205 ; were the Qur'an, its early portions genuine Q. to convulse nature, some would rhapsodies of an enthusiast, 6, xlvi; not believe, 6, 236; the original Jewish and Christian influences on the Mother of the Book') is with it, 6, xlvii-lii, lxix, 5 n.; its influence God, 6, 237; 9, 211; revealed to on the Arab mind, 6,1; not a formal bring men from darkness into light, and consistent code of morals, 6, lii; 6, 238; the Seven of the Repetiits language and style, 6, liv sq. tion,' opening chapter of the Q., 6,
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