I am looking for a Quran that has Arabic and translation side by side. Its for a Shia friend who doesn’t know that much about her religion, but she’s gaining interest in it now. I need something where the translation is relatively easy to understand and has great footnotes, etc. Perferably, I’d like the translation to be penned by a Shia. I don’t know if it makes much of a difference in the translation or if it makes much difference in the information contained in the footnotes.
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She needs to visit an Imam Bargah...They will have the Quran translated by their scholars...
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PCG, have you tried http://www.shiatranslatedquran.com. I am sure they have what you are looking for
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Yeah...I'll be waiting for that one serious reply out of a sea of BS replies...
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Back in olevels Islamiyat, we found that Pickthall's translation was the easiest to understand. It was readily available in Pakistan and had a yellow cover, I'd recommend that one.
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but spock did a Shia "penned" the transalation?
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That I dont know, but translation should be the same? Thats actually a good question, do the translations of the two sects differ in anyway?
Pickthall did a good job in his translation, at that time we didnt have too many english books that covered the islamiyat syllabus (the best one was from a female professor in some college in Karachi, I beleive her name was Rakshusanda Noor) and we had to keep referring to the text of the Quran and alot the other translations we came across were very difficult to understand and the translation was very vague, maybe they tried too hard to translate it without deviating too much.
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Sorry to deviate your thread PCG, but here is some info I found on him... So he didnt really call it a translatio, but a meaning.
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The mission of 'translating' the Qur'an had preoccupied Pickthall's mind since he reverted to Islam. He saw that there was an obligation for all Muslims to know the Qur'an intimately. In 1930, Pickthall published The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (A. A. Knopf, New York). Pickthall maintained that the Qur'an being the word of Allah (SWT) could not be translated.
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I think the most well known translation of the Quran by a shia is *Holy Qur'an *(New York, 1982) by M.H. Shakir.
Also, Shia doctrines are reflected in commentaries of S.V. Mir Ahmad Ali, The Holy Qur'an with English Translation and Commentary, includes special notes from Hujjatul Islam Ayatullah Haji Mirza Mahdi Pooya Yazdi on the philosophical aspects of the verses' (Karachi, 1964).
regards,
bob
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^ Yup M. H. Shakir is the one.
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Here you go:
Multilingual Qur’an
Fully searchable multilingual Qur’an with arabic text, English translations, and commentary by Agha Puya / S.V. Mir Ahmed Ali.
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PCG, ignore the stupid replies in this thread, just go with Pikthal's translation.
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zer01 excellent link. The site allows one to compare Shakir with Pickthal and others.
regards,
bob
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