Questions about the Q'uran.

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I was just wondering where I can get good links and references to a full ENGLISH translation of the Q’uran or persian (dari farsi). Preferrably by a Scholar/pHD, and something not located on Geocities that could be made up by a thirteen year old that claims he is a scholar. I am of course, curious to learn more about your religion than what I know from my muslim friends etc.

Thank you,

Arai

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arai,

The full english translation of Quran with Arabic text is available at

http://www.unn.ac.uk/societies/islamic/quran/naeindex.htm

If you are familiar with persian, you may be able to figure out some words of Arabic. This will be quite important. The reason I am saying this is that Quran was revealed in Arabic, and it is the word of God. Any time it is translated into any language, it ceases to be a word of God, thats why we call it “the closest interpretation”. As most of us don’t understand arabic (although we should try to learn it) thats why scholars translate it so that we can understand.

Another site, which provides translation of Quran by three different scholars is available at the following link. These three scholars are Pikthal, Yousaf Ali and Shakir. Their translations appear side-by-side, to make it easy for us to comprehend the finer points of translation. The URL is

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/

Best of luck. Ciao!

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Thanks Pristine,

Arai, and if you need a search on Quran, try this one.
http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/quran_browser/pqform.shtml

May Allah bless you.

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Try this one. The best English translation and commentary ever written by Abdullah Yousuf Ali. Who did research for forty years before he completed the translation.

The Holy Quraan,
Text, Translation & Commentary By

Abdullah Yousuf Ali

Publishers: Sh., Muhammad Asharaf
Publishers, BoookSellers & Exporters
7, Albak Raod, (New Anarkali) Lahore 7

This book should be available in any big store, which carries the Islamic Books.

FARID

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Thank you all.

I will look into these resources.

p.s.

Yes, I'm familiar with persian,, as it's my mother tongue, but it's not exactly like the national farsi of Iran, but it's a dialect of it. I can also speak Punjabi, but I can not read it.