QAINUQĀʿ (قينقاع). A Jewish tribe near al-Madīnah in the time of Muḥammad. He besieged them in their stronghold in the second year of the Hijrah, and, having conquered them, sent most of them into exile. (See Muir’s Life of Mahomet, vol. iii. p. 134.)
QAIṢAR (قيصر). [CÆSAR.]
QAIS IBN SAʿD (قيس بن سعد). One of the leading companions. He was of the tribe K͟hazraj and the son of Saʿd, a Companion of note. He was a man of large stature and corpulent, eminent for learning, wisdom, and courage. He commanded the Prophet’s body-guard, and under the K͟halīfah ʿAlī he was made Governor of Egypt. Died at al-Madīnah, A.H. 60.
AL-QAIYŪM (القيوم). “The Self-Subsisting.” One of the ninety-nine attributes of God. It occurs in the Qurʾān, [Sūrah iii. 1]: “There is no deity but God, the living, the self-subsisting.”
QALAM (قلم). Lit. “A (reed) pen.” (1) The pen with which God is said to have pre-recorded the actions of men. The Prophet said the first thing which God created was the Pen (qalam), and that it wrote down the quantity of every individual thing to be created, all that was and all that will be to all eternity. (See Mishkāt.) (2) Al-Qalam, the title of the LXVIIIth Sūrah of the Qurʾān.
QALANDAR (قلندر). A Persian title to an order of faqīrs or darwīshes. An Ascetic.
AL-QAMAR (القمر). “The moon.” The title of the LIVth Sūrah of the Qurʾān, in the first verse of which the word occurs. “And the moon hath been split in sunder.” [[MOON], SHAQQU ʾL-QAMAR.]
QANĀʿAH (قناعة). Contentment; resignation.
QĀNIT (قانت). Lit. “One who stands in prayer or in the service of God.” Godly, devout, prayerful. The term is used twice in the Qurʾān:—
[Sūrah xvi. 121]: “Verily, Abraham was a leader in religion and obedient to God.”