Sound and/or facial expressions generally indicative of merriment. Laughter does not figure prominently in the Qurʾān: verb forms and participles derived from ḍ-ḥ-k occur just ten times compared to a stunning 179 appearances of its synonymous Hebrew cognates s-ʾ-ḥ-q/ṣ-ḥ-q in the Hebrew Bible. B-s-m for smiling appears just once and never the onomatopoetic q-h-q-h for strong laughter (an Arabic root form which, incidentally, more or less reverses and doubles the western Semitic onomatopoetic *-ḥ-q from which the various triliterals for laughter seem to be derived). La…

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Sūrat al-Najm  Sūrat al-Najm   Ascension   Moon   Nature as Signs   Popular and Talismanic Uses of the Qurʾān   Rhymed Prose   Satanic Verses   Sirius   Sūra(s)   Theology and the Qurʾān  1   Afternoon   Nature as Signs   Oaths   Planets and Stars   Prayer   Sirius   Soothsayer  1-8   Prayer   Spirit  1-11   Fasting  1-12   Ascension  1-18   Angel   Ascension   Chronology and the Qurʾān   Gabriel   Heaven and Sky   Revelation and Inspiration   Ṣūfism and the Qurʾān   Soothsayer   Vision and Blindness  1-20   Ḥadīth and the Qurʾān  2   Companions of the Prophet   Verse(s)…

Sūrat al-Muṭaffifīn  Sūrat al-Muṭaffifīn   Cheating   Chronology and the Qurʾān   Sūra(s)  1-3   Judgment   Markets   Reward and Punishment   Rhetoric and the Qurʾān  2   Measurement  3   Measurement  6   Spatial Relations  7   Pairs and Pairing   Witnessing and Testifying  7-8   Pit   Soothsayer  7-9   Pit   Rhetoric and the Qurʾān  7-24   Destiny  8   Pit   Teaching  9   Orality and Writing in Arabia   Writing and Writing Materials  10   Verse(s)  11   Last Judgment  12   Provocation  13   History and the Qurʾān   Literacy   Narratives   Rhetoric and the Qurʾān   Sign…

  ʿ-dh-r    maʿādhīr    Left Hand and Right Hand   ʿ-f-f    istaʿaffa    Abstinence    Chastity    Shīʿism and the Qurʾān    iʿfāf    Maintenance and Upkeep   ʿ-f-r    ʿafār    Fire    Tree(s)    ʿifr    ʿIfrīt    ʿifriya    ʿIfrīt   ʿ-f-r-t    ʿifrīt, pl. ʿafārīt    Jinn    Myths and Legends in the Qurʾān    Spiritual Beings    ʿIfrīt   ʿ-f-w    ʿafuww    Forgiveness    God and his Attributes    Pairs and Pairing    ʿafw    Forgiveness    ʿafā    Judgment   ʿ-h-d    aʿhada    Cosmology    iʿtamada    Trust and Patience    maʿāhid    Teaching and Preaching the Qurʾān    taʿāhud    T…

-ḍād-   ḍ-b-b    ḍabba    Cosmology   ḍ-b-ṭ    ḍabṭ    Orthography    ḍābiṭ, pl. ḍābiṭūn    Possession and Possessions   ḍ-d-d    taḍādd    Literature and the Qurʾān   ḍ-f-d-ʿ    ḍafādiʿ    Animal Life   ḍ-gh-th    ḍighth, pl. aḍghāth    Agriculture and Vegetation    Foretelling in the Qurʾān    Grasses    Joseph    Popular and Talismanic Uses of the Qurʾān    Prophets and Prophethood    aḍghāth aḥlām   ḍ-j-ʿ    maḍājiʿ    Ethics and the Qurʾān   ḍ-l-l    aḍalla    Astray    Ethics and the Qurʾān    Moses    Path or Way    iḍlāl    Moses    muḍill    Moses    taḍlīl    Pit    Rhymed…

Sūrat ʿAbasa  Sūrat ʿAbasa   Sūra(s)  1-6   Vision and Blindness  1-10   Virtue  1-16   Age of Ignorance  3   Teaching  10-16   Verse(s)  11   Exhortations  11-16   Verse(s)  12-17   Scrolls  13   Instruments   Scrolls  13-14   Names of the Qurʾān   Ritual and the Qurʾān   Ritual Purity  13-15   Literacy  14   Cleanliness and Ablution  15-16   Book   Ḥadīth and the Qurʾān   Revelation and Inspiration  17   Cosmology   Curse   Form and Structure of the Qurʾān   Sūra(s)  17-42   God and his Attributes  18-19   Creation  18-22   Burial   Freedom and Predestination   Youth …

Humour is anything that pertains, or appeals, to the sense of the ludicrous, absurdly incongruous, or comic. In its relation to the Qurʾānic revelation humour has two major aspects: first, whether there is any humour in the Qurʾān and, if so, how it is constituted; secondly, whether the Qurʾān occurs in or is the object of indigenous Islamic jocular literature (see literature and the Qurʾān).The issue of humour in the Qurʾān relates to wider discussions of whether scripture can contain humour. In the Islamic case, moreover, the issue also concerns the ques…

That which pertains, or appeals, to the sense of the ludicrous, absurdly incongruous or comic. Humor in its relation to the ¶ qurʾānic revelation involves two major aspects: first, whether there is any humor in the Qurʾān and, if so, how it is constituted; secondly, whether the Qurʾān occurs in or forms the object of indigenous Islamic jocular literature (see literature and the qurʾān ). The issue of humor in the Qurʾān pertains to the general discussion of whether scripture can contain humor. In the Islamic case, the issue moreover implies the question of whether God has a sense of humor (see a…

  m-th-l    laysa ka-mithlihi shayʾ(un)    Literary Structures of the Qurʾān    Simile    mathal, pl. amthāl    Air and Wind    Ambiguous    Debate and Disputation    History and the Qurʾān    Narratives    Pairs and Pairing    Parable    Signs    Simile    Springs and Fountains    Symbolic Imagery    Traditional Disciplines of Qurʾānic Studies    mathalu l-jannati    Ḥadīth and the Qurʾān    mathula, pl. mathulāt    Dialects    Reward and Punishment    Sunna    mithl    Literary Structures of the Qurʾān    Simile    mithāl    Philosophy and the Qurʾān    mumaththilūn…

  ḥ-y-y    aḥyā    Cain and Abel    Cosmology    Crucifixion    Laughter    Martyrs    Resurrection    Word of God    istaḥyā    Modesty    istiḥyāʾ    Modesty    muḥyī    Resurrection    ḥayawān    Animal Life    Paradise    ḥayy    Adam and Eve    Death and the Dead    God and his Attributes    Kinship    Life    Pairs and Pairing    Popular and Talismanic Uses of the Qurʾān    Tribes and Clans    ḥayy al-qayyūm    ḥayya, pl. ḥayyāt    Animal Life    ḥayāt[ḥayāh]    Angel    Boast    Community and Society in the Qurʾān    Grammar and the Qurʾān    Life    Nature as Signs    …

  s-h-w    istahā    Trips and Voyages   s-j-d    masjid, pl. masājid    Anatomy    Aqṣā Mosque    Art and Architecture and the Qurʾān    Ascension    Church    Geography    Grammar and the Qurʾān    House, Domestic and Divine    Jerusalem    Kaʿba    Mecca    Mosque    Mosque of the Dissension    Myths and Legends in the Qurʾān    Pilgrimage    Prayer    Pre-Islamic Arabia and the Qurʾān    Profane and Sacred    Qibla    Religious Pluralism and the Qurʾān    Sacred Precincts    Spatial Relations    Syria    Witnessing and Testifying    Worship    Yemen    al-masjid …

-bāʾ-   b-d-d    tabdīd al-ʿilm    Dissimulation   b-d-l    abdāl    Persian Literature and the Qurʾān    Saint    baddala    Abrogation    Forgery    Shīʿism and the Qurʾān    istabdala    Caliph    tabaddala    Error    tabdīl    Forgery    Revision and Alteration    Tradition and Custom   b-d-n    badana, pl. budn    Animal Life    Consecration of Animals    Food and Drink   b-d-r    badr    Moon   b-d-w    abdā    Occasions of Revelation    badawī    Arabic Language    Bedouin    badw    Bedouin    badā    Bedouin    badūna fī l-aʿrāb    badāʾ    Dissimulation    Shīʿism a…

  ḥ-s-d    ḥasad    Envy    Eyes    ḥasada    Envy    ḥāsid    Envy   ḥ-s-n    aḥsan    Exegesis of the Qurʾān: Classical and Medieval    God and his Attributes    aḥsana    Beauty    Ethics and the Qurʾān    Paradise    alladhī aḥsana    aḥsana ṣuwwarakum    lilladhīna aḥsanū    istiḥsān    Law and the Qurʾān    Modesty    Politics and the Qurʾān    iḥsān    Belief and Unbelief    Chastity    Ethics and the Qurʾān    Honor    Justice and Injustice    Oaths    Piety    Virtues and Vices, Commanding and Forbidding    bi-l-wālidayni iḥsānan    iḥtisān    Justice and Injusti…

Shedding of tears as a result of a heightened emotional state. Weeping out of piety (q.v.) or the fear (q.v.) of God is considered an expression of great devotion and several ḥadīths relate that this is what the Companions of the Prophet (q.v.) used to do when they heard sermons and preaching (see teaching and preaching the qurʾān ). According to a ḥadīth reported by Abū Hurayra (d. ca. 58/678; see ḥadīth and the qurʾān ), among “the seven people to whom God gives his shade on the day” of resurrection (q.v.), there is “a man who remembers God in solitude and his eyes become tearful” (Bukhārī, Ṣaḥīḥ, …