hi. I am at the moment trying to study the different tafaseer of Quran. I wish to know what the Sunni scholars consider to be the best tafseer work on Quran? Provide me the online links too if you could. Many thanks
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Review this thread for answer to your question.
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/religion-scripture/294064-quran-translations.html
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Mirch, i am more after exegises of the Quran than translation or basic commentary. I have link to few of the major ones but my main question is which one(s) of them Ahlay Sunnat consider to be the best? Is there any clear favorites or not as such?
That thead is not about translations it is about exegises. As for any clear favorite it depends on who you ask.
Here is my post from that thread:
"If you are just trying to get fundamental knowledge and guidance then any one of those is good enough. But if you want to go into the depth of the words and concepts then remember the translation are also done with certain preconceived notions. For example Tafheem ul Quran by Moulana Moududi is laced with mention of how important it is to create an Islamic party and be a member of it and how this party should strive to bring everybody to the right path he goes to the extent that he calls the sahaba of Rasool Allah (SAW) collectively a Islami Jamaat ( get it ? Jamaat a Islami was the name of his party)
Moulana Asad’s translation and tafseer is laced with western upbringing. Some word or some concepts will be translated with certain mindset by someone.
So the answer is there is not one translation which should suffice if you are going deep , so it is better to read as many as you can and try to learn the Quranic Arabic yourself , trust me it is not difficult to learn it if you have Urdu background.
I have found our that there are about 3000 words in Quran which are repeated in the entire Quran 1200 of those words are used in Urdu so it leaves you with 1800 new words to learn. Then there are some basic Arabic grammar rules , they are very easy to learn too.
Here is a link on in depth discussion on the subject of translations of Quran.
A Survey of English Translations of the Quran"
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ohok, thank you for your opinion. But i still wish to know if there is any particular work that is considered better than the others by the Sunni scholars. For example, from Shia works on tafaseer, Al-mizan is considered the best work by the large majority of scholars if not all; www.almizan.org
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tafseer of ibn-e-katheer is generally the most popular one among sunni scholars....
^ Yes a good one and can be accessed from:
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Below is a very useful website that presents a comparison of the various Tafseer work:
Tafseer Comparison
Hope you’ll find it useful.
Tafseer ibne kaseer or Maari ful quraan
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I second Marif-ul-Quran by Mufti Shafi Usmani
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tafseer ibn-e-kaseer orignally arabic tafseer hay in ki urdu main jo translation hay woh us mayaar ki nahi hay na he us say woh faaida hasil hota hay jo asal tafseer main hay ..is ley ulma-e-deoband is ki translations ko zyada mau'tabar nahi maantay
bakee Awaam k ley sahal andaz main jo tafseer hay us main Tafseer-e-usmaani ko bohat
zyada tajweez kia jata hay
dosree** maarif ul quraan** hay urdu english dono main mojood hay ... urdu zaban main yeh tammam tafaseer main rooh ul maani jaisa derja rakhtee hay ..
lakin yaad rahay maarif ul quraan ik mufti shafi kee hay ..main isee ko baat ker rahee hoon
or ik maarif ul quraan molna idrees kaandhelwee kee bhi hay ..taham yeh mukamal quraan kee nahi...faida mand to bohat hay lakin baghair ustaad kay is ko samjhna Aam shaks k ley mushkil hay