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The Glorious

Quran

Word-for-Word Translation

to facilitate learning of

Quranic Arabic

Compiled by:

Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh (M.B.B.S., M.D.)

Ms. Kausar Khatri (B.Com., B.Ed.)

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

Obligations of the Quran on every Muslim

Based on the Quran and Hadith, it can be said that every Muslim has the following obligations

towards the Quran

• To believe in the Quran;

• To read it and recite it daily;

• To understand its commandments;

• To act upon its teachings; and

• To convey its teachings to others

Some features of this work:

I have no formal qualifications for any of this… Heck, I flunked English and dropped out of high school. Indeed, I never really felt connected to the mainstream culture around me during my childhood overall (e.g., music, sports, dating, politics, religion, etc.) I’ve learned what I know outside of school. Perhaps this is one reason the Tao Te Ching spoke to me deeply. Circumstances, beginning with emigrating to Australia at age 20, also played a role in my outside the cultural box understanding of life.

I realized, after having a family of my own, that I wasn’t truly a loner. In fact, I would have fit right in with our ancestral hunter-gatherer ways. I now believe I simply couldn’t connect well in the less intimate settings of civilization. I reckon I was born 10,000 years too late. The following is a brief summary of my history.

I was born in Tucson Arizona in 1943. I had a normal childhood, which began to change with the onset of puberty. I dropped out of high school and joined the Air National Guard. The Cuban Missile Crisis of the early 60’s changed my destiny. I was plugging away at night college and working full time at an electronics firm when I was called to active duty and scheduled for deployment to Germany. I had to drop out of college and pack my bags. When circumstances cooled down, the mission was cancelled and I was left without college or a “vacation” to Germany.

My life was up in the air. I felt I had to go somewhere! WWII vets at work talked up Australia as a great place to go. On the other hand, I had adapted the NASA’s Gemini telemetry technology I was working on then for use in consumer products – a personal pager system for doctors, and radio controlled toys. What should I do? Stay and develop these inventions, which might make me millions or go to Australia.

I immigrated to Australia in 1963, and found work at the NASA satellite tracking station in Western Australia. Soon though, I was drawn to Asia where I spent years wandering, working and wondering, i.e., growing up. Overall, I spent 15 years traveling the world, much of it hitchhiking (see map above), until my mid 30’s when I decided to return to the USA and blend back into its melting pot.

Feeling no urge to return, why did I? The Taoist observation, He goes out farther, he realizes less, became increasingly apparent to me as my years on the road grew. Indeed, simply expecting to know more by going out further is in effect realizing less… expectation blind realization. The Tao Te Ching, chapter 47, sums it up well,

Without going out the door, we can know all under heaven.

Without looking out the window, we can see nature’s way.

He goes out farther, he realizes less,

Accordingly, the wise person goes nowhere, yet knows.

Sees nothing, yet understands.

Refrains from acting, yet accomplishes

This became truer for me as I realized the world I thought I was getting to know was largely a reflection of my own personal needs and fears. Thus, the better I knew myself, the more I would end up knowing the whole world. In other words, I can’t know anything ‘out there’ more than I honestly and deeply know my ‘in here’.

Besides that, I suppose I was looking for a home — a place to settle down, which I did several times for a while… in Australia, Thailand, Japan, Singapore, Sweden, and England. In the end, I wearied of being “the foreigner”, and decided to return to America and try to blend-in. As it happens, I found blending-in to be home.

I should add I’m referring to a subjective blending-in, and not a cultural pressure to conform. Chapter 20 describes this poetically. This may sum up what everyone feels to some degree.

Crowd of people all have appointments to keep,

I alone am dense and vulgar.

I alone am different from people,

And value feeding the mother.

I eventually settled down in 1980 in Santa Cruz, California, married and had two sons. My unconventional nature along with many years of other-culture experiences left me profoundly ecumenical and non-partisan. This was likely an asset for understanding the Tao Te Ching. In 1982, I opened the Center for Taoist Thought and Fellowship to provide a space for Taoist minded folks to meet and share how a Taoist worldview relates to personal life.

By the grace of Allah, I am presenting herewith ‘A Word For Word Translation of the Qur’an’ by Muhammad Mohar Ali. This work is of immense importance and everyone wanting to understand the Qur’an in a better way must possess a copy of this.

The work has been originally published in 3 volumes. This set places one or a couple of words of the ‘ayah in one line of a column and gives their meanings side by side in another column, taking care to see that the flow and intelligibility of the English meanings are not thereby lost. 

I encountered great difficulty in downloading the original files.

The 3 original files were too heavy. So I took the liberty of breaking into smaller files and each volume has been made into 3 files. So (3 x 3) nine files are presented here. I feel this is convenient to download by one and all, Inshaa’Allah.

If anyone has objection in me doing so – and I did it for the sake of Allah – then I would straightaway remove the files, Inshaa’Allah.

• 1. 01-03 Surah al Fatiha to Surah Aal Imran

• 2. 04-07 Surah al Nisa to Surah al A’raaf

• 3. 08-11 Surah al Anfaal to Surah Huud

• 4. 12-18 Surah Yusuf to Surah al Kahf

• 5. 19-26 Surah Maryam to Surah Ash Shuaraa

• 6. 27-35 Surah al Naml to Surah al Faathir

• 7. 36-55 Surah Yaseen to Surah Ar Rahmaan

• 8. 56-77 Surah al Waqiah to Surah al Mursalaat

• 9. 78-114 Surah an Naba to Surah an Naas

  And if you want to have it in 3 volumes itself, then download them from these links, Inshaa’Allah:-

            VOLUME 1 | VOLUME 2 | VOLUME 3

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Request: Please remember me in your du’aas. Jazakumullah Khayr.

July 26, 2012 —

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