The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an: Complete Translation with Selected Notes

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Kube Publishing Ltd, Aug 15, 2015 - Religion - 752 pages

The Qur'an is the inimitable and direct Word of God. It was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad over twenty-three years, who faithfully transmitted it to humanity in the seventh century. Since then the text and meaning of the Qur'an has been preserved, word for word, exactly as it was fourteen hundred years ago. It is a Book of Guidance for all mankind with a central message of God's Oneness. Yet, it has several layers of meaning and beauty that are easily lost in translation.

This splendid translation, originally prepared in 1934, aimed to help readers understand the meaning of the Qur'an but also to appreciate its beauty and catch something of the grandeur of the Arabic.

This is a compact and revised edition of Abdullah Yusuf Ali's translation of The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an in modern English. It contains the complete translation of the Qur'anic text and retains essential notes of Yusuf Ali's exhaustive commentary on the Qur'an, which enables the reader to gain a better understanding of its message and helps to reveal some of the inexhaustible depth of knowledge it contains.

One of the most widely-used and known translations of the Qur'an into modern English, with 472 notes and an introduction.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872–1953) was an Indian Islamic scholar. In 1938, Yusuf Ali's translation of the Qur'an was published in Lahore. His translation of the Qur'an is one of the most widely-known and used in the English-speaking world. He died in 1953 in London, United Kingdom.

 

Contents

AlFātihah The Opening
17
AlBaqarah The Heifer
21
Al Imrån The Family of Imrān
62
AlNisa The Women
85
AlMāidah The Table Spread
109
AlAnām The Cattle
127
AlAraf The Heights
149
AlAnfäl The Spoils of War
174
AlMumtahanah The Woman To Be Examined
577
AlSaff The Battle Array
581
AlJumuah Congregation
584
AlMunāfiqun The Hypocrites
586
AlTaghābun Mutual Loss and Gain
588
AlTalāq Divorce
590
AlTahrim Prohibition
593
AlMulk The Dominion
596

AlTawbah The Repentance or Barāah Immunity
184
Yünus Jonah
202
Hüd The Prophet Hüd
215
Yüsuf Joseph
229
AlRad The Thunder
242
Ibrāhim Abraham
249
AlHijr The Rocky Tract
255
AlNahl The Bee
262
AlIsrā The Night Journey or Bani Isrāil The Children of Israel
276
AlKahf The Cave
290
Maryam Mary
303
Tā Hā 3 11
322
AlHajj The Pilgrimage
331
AlMuminun The Believers
340
AlNür The Light
348
AlFurqān The Criterion
358
AlShuarā The Poets
365
AlNaml The Ants
375
AlQasas The Narration
384
AlAnkabüt The Spider
394
AlRüm The Roman Empire
401
Luqmān
409
AlSajdah The Prostration
414
AlAhzāb The Confederates
417
Saba The City of Saba
431
Fâtir The Originator of Creation
437
Yā SIn
443
AlSāffāt Those Ranged in Ranks
450
Såd
459
AlZumar The Crowds
467
Ghāfir Forgiver or AlMumin The Believer
476
Fussilat Expounded or Hà MIm
485
AlShürā Consultation
492
AlZukhruf The Gold Adornments
499
AlDukhān The Smoke
506
AlJāthiyah The Kneeling Down
510
AlAhqāf Winding Sandtracts
514
Muhammad
519
AlFath The Victory
524
AlHujurāt The Inner Apartments
532
Qāf
536
AlDhāriyāt The Winds that Scatter
540
AlTür The Mount
544
AlNajm The Star
547
AlQamar The Moon
551
AlRahmān The Most Gracious
555
AlWāqiah The Inevitable Event
559
AlHadid Iron
563
AlMujādalah The Woman Who Pleads
568
AlHashr The Gathering or Banishment
572
AlQalam The Pen or Nün
599
AlHāqqah The Sure Reality
603
AlMaārij The Ways of Ascent
606
Nüh Noah
608
AlJinn The Spirits
610
AlMuzzammil Folded in Garments 6 13
613
AlMuddaththir The One Wrapped Up
616
AlQiyāmah The Resurrection
619
AlInsān Man
621
AlMursalāt Those Sent Forth
624
AlNabā The Great News
626
AlNăziāt Those Who Tear Out
629
Abasa He Frowned
631
AlTakwir The Folding Up
633
AlInfitär The Cleaving Asunder
635
AlMutaffifin The Dealers in Fraud
637
AlInshiqāq The Rending Asunder
639
AlBuruj The Zodiacal Signs
641
AlTāriq The NightVisitant
643
AlAla The Most High
644
AlGhāshiyah The Overwhelming Event
646
AlFajr The Break of Day
647
AlBalad The City
649
AlShams The Sun
651
AlLayl The Night
653
AlDuhā The Glorious Morning Light
655
AlSharh The Expansion
656
AlTIn The Fig
657
AlAlaq The Clinging Clot or Iqra Read
658
AlQadr The Night of Power or Honour
660
AlBayyinah The Clear Evidence
661
AlZilzal The Convulsion
663
AlAdiyāt Those That Run
664
AlQāriah The Day of Noise and Clamour
665
AlTakāthur The Piling Up
666
AlAsr Time Through the Ages
667
AlHumazah The Scandalmonger
668
AlFil The Elephant
669
Quraysh The Tribe of Quraysh
670
AlMāun The Neighbourly Needs
671
AlKawthar The Abundance
672
AlKāfirün Those Who Reject Faith
673
AlNasr The Help
674
AlLahab The Flame or AlMasad The Plaited Rope
675
AlIkhlās The Purity of Faith
676
AlFalaq The Daybreak
678
AlNäs Mankind
679
Index
681
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