ANIMALS

Arabic Ḥayawān ( حيوان‎ ). According to the Qurʾān, Sūrah xxiv. 44 , “God hath created every animal of water.” “An idea,” says Rodwell, “perhaps derived from Gen. i. 20, 21 .” It is believed that at the Resurrection the irrational animals will be restored to life, that they may be brought to judgment, and then be annihilated. See Qurʾān, Sūrah vi. 38 , “No kind of beast is there on the earth, nor fowl that flieth with its wings, but is a community like you; nothing have We pa ed over in the book (of the Eternal decrees): then unto their Lord shall they be gathered.” AL -ʿANKABŪT ( العنكبوت‎ ). “The Spider.” The title of the XXIX th Sūrah, in which there is a pa ing reference to this insect in the 40th verse:—“The likene for those who take to themselves guardians besides God is the likene of the spider who buildeth her a house; but truly the frailest of all houses surely is the house of the spider.” AL -ANṢĀR ( الانصار‎ ). “The Helpers,” a term used for the early converts of al-Madīnah; but when all the citizens of al-Madīnah were ostensibly converted to Islām, they were all named Anṣār , while those Muslims who accompanied the Prophet from Makkah to al-Madīnah were called Muhājirūn , or exiles. (Muir’s Life of Mahomet , vol iii. p. 26.) [ MUHAMMAD .]