Dawat ul Quran
Quran Translation and Commentary by Shams PirzadaTranslation in English by Abdul Karim Shaikh
Quran Translation
Word for Word by
Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh
& Kausar Khatri
Introduction
1. Al-Fatihah
2. Al-Baqarah
3. Al-Imran
4. Al-Nisa
5. Al-Maidah
6. Al-Anam
7. Al-Araf
8. Al-Anfal
9. Al-Taubah
10. Yunus
11. Hud
12. Yusuf
13. Al-Rad
14. Ibrahim
15. Al-Hijr
16. Al-Nahl
17. Bani Israil
18. Al-Kahf
19. Maryam
20. Ta-Ha
21. Al-Anbiya
22. Al-Hajj
23. Al-Muminun
24. An-Nur
25. Al-Furqan
26. Ash-Shuara
27. An-Naml
28. Al-Qasas
29. Al-Ankabut
30. Ar-Rum
31. Luqman
32. As-Sajdah
33. Al-Ahzab
34. Saba
35. Fatir
36. Yasin
37. As-Saffat
38. Saad
39. Az-Zumar
40. Al-Mumin
41. Ha-Meem-As-Sajdah
42. AShura
43. Az-Zukhruf
44. Ad-Dukhan
45. Al-Jathiyah
46. Al-Ahqaf
47. Muhammad
48. Al-Fath
49. Al-Hujurat
50. Al-Qaf
51. Adh-Dhariyat
52. At-Tur
53. An-Najm
54. Al-Qamar
55. Al-Rahman
56. Al-Waqiah
57. Al-Hadid
58. Al-Mujadalah
59. Al-Hashr
60. Al-Mumtahinah
61. As-Saff
62. Al-Jumuah
63. Al-Munafiqun
64. Al-Taghabun
65. At-Talaq
66. At-Tahrim
67. Al-Mulk
68. Al-Qalam
69. Al-Haqqah
70. Al-Maarij
71. Nuh
72. Al-Jinn
73. Al-Muzzammil
74. Al-Muddhththir
75. Al-Qiyamah
76. Ad-Dahr
77. Al-Mursalat
78. An-Naba
79. An-Naziat
80. Abas
81. At-Takwir
82. Al-Infitar
83. At-Tatfif
84. Al-Inshiqaq
85. Al-Buruj
86. At-Tariq
87. Al-Ala
88. Al-Ghashiyah
89. Al-Fajr
90. Al-Balad
91. Ash-Shams
92. Al-Lail
93. Ad-Duha
94. Al-Inshirah
95. At-Tin
96. Al-Alaq
97. Al-Qadr
98. Al-Bayyinah
99. Az-Zilzal
100. Al-Adiyat
101. Al-Qariah
102. At-Takathur
103. Al-Asr
104. Al-Humazah
105. Al-Fil
106. Al-Quraish
107. Al-Maun
108. Al-Kauthar
109. Al-Kafirun
110. An-Nasr
111. Al-Lahab
112. Al-Ikhlas
113. Al-Falaq
114. An-Nas
قُلْ Say یٰۤاَهْلَ O People الْكِتٰبِ (of) the Book تَعَالَوْا Come اِلٰی to كَلِمَةٍ a word سَوَآءٍۭ equitable بَیْنَنَا between us وَ بَیْنَكُمْ and between you اَلَّا that not نَعْبُدَ we worship اِلَّا except اللّٰهَ Allah وَ لَا and not نُشْرِكَ we associate partners بِهٖ with Him شَیْـًٔا anything وَّ لَا and not یَتَّخِذَ take بَعْضُنَا some of us بَعْضًا (to) others اَرْبَابًا (as) lords مِّنْ from دُوْنِ besides اللّٰهِ ؕ Allah فَاِنْ Then if تَوَلَّوْا they turn away فَقُوْلُوا then say اشْهَدُوْا Bear witness بِاَنَّا that we مُسْلِمُوْنَ (are) Muslims یٰۤاَهْلَ O People الْكِتٰبِ (of) the Book لِمَ Why تُحَآجُّوْنَ (do) you argue فِیْۤ concerning اِبْرٰهِیْمَ Ibrahim وَ مَاۤ while not اُنْزِلَتِ was revealed التَّوْرٰىةُ the Taurat وَ الْاِنْجِیْلُ and the Injeel اِلَّا except مِنْۢ from بَعْدِهٖ ؕ after him اَفَلَا Then why don't تَعْقِلُوْنَ you use your intellect هٰۤاَنْتُمْ Here you are هٰۤؤُلَآءِ those who حَاجَجْتُمْ argued فِیْمَا about what لَكُمْ [for] you بِهٖ of it عِلْمٌ (have some) knowledge فَلِمَ Then why تُحَآجُّوْنَ (do) you argue فِیْمَا about what لَیْسَ not لَكُمْ for you بِهٖ of it عِلْمٌ ؕ (any) knowledge وَ اللّٰهُ And Allah یَعْلَمُ knows وَ اَنْتُمْ while you لَا (do) not تَعْلَمُوْنَ know مَا Not كَانَ was اِبْرٰهِیْمُ Ibrahim یَهُوْدِیًّا a Jew وَّ لَا and not نَصْرَانِیًّا a Christian وَّ لٰكِنْ and but كَانَ he was حَنِیْفًا a true مُّسْلِمًا ؕ Muslim وَ مَا and not كَانَ he was مِنَ from الْمُشْرِكِیْنَ the polytheists اِنَّ Indeed اَوْلَی the best to claim relationship النَّاسِ (of) people بِاِبْرٰهِیْمَ with Ibrahim لَلَّذِیْنَ (are) those who اتَّبَعُوْهُ follow him وَ هٰذَا and this النَّبِیُّ [the] Prophet وَ الَّذِیْنَ and those who اٰمَنُوْا ؕ believe[d] وَ اللّٰهُ And Allah وَلِیُّ (is) a Guardian الْمُؤْمِنِیْنَ (of) the believers وَدَّتْ Wished طَّآىِٕفَةٌ a group مِّنْ from اَهْلِ (the) People الْكِتٰبِ (of) the Book لَوْ if یُضِلُّوْنَكُمْ ؕ they could lead you astray وَ مَا and not یُضِلُّوْنَ they lead astray اِلَّاۤ except اَنْفُسَهُمْ themselves وَ مَا and not یَشْعُرُوْنَ they perceive یٰۤاَهْلَ O People الْكِتٰبِ (of) the Book! لِمَ Why do تَكْفُرُوْنَ you deny بِاٰیٰتِ [in] the Signs اللّٰهِ (of) Allah وَ اَنْتُمْ while you تَشْهَدُوْنَ bear witness 3. Ali 'Imran Page 59 یٰۤاَهْلَ O People الْكِتٰبِ (of) the Book! لِمَ Why تَلْبِسُوْنَ do you mix الْحَقَّ the truth بِالْبَاطِلِ with the falsehood وَ تَكْتُمُوْنَ and conceal الْحَقَّ the truth وَ اَنْتُمْ while you تَعْلَمُوْنَ۠ know
64. Say: “O people of the Book ! Come to a point which is common between us and you that we shall worship none but Allah.89 and that we shall associate nobody with Him. and that none of us shall take others as Lords beside Allah.”90 Then if they turn away, say: “bear witness that we are Muslims.”
65. O people of the Book ! why do you dispute about Ibrahim when the Torah and the Gospel were not revealed till after Him? Have you then no sense? 91
66. “You are those who disputed about that where of you had some knowledge. Now, why do you dispute about that of which you have no knowledge? Allah knows you know not. ”
67. Ibrahim was not a Jew, nor a Christian, but was an upright Muslim, and he was not of the polytheists.
68. Verily, the nearest of mankind to Ibrahim are only those who followed him, as also this prophet and those who believe; and Allah is the Friend of the faithful.
69. A section of the people of the Book wishes to lead you astray, whereas they mislead themselves only, but they do not perceive.
70. O People of the Book ! why do you disbelieve in the revelation of Allah, when you yourselves are witnessing it ?
71. O people of the Book ! Why do you confound truth with falsehood and conceal the truth while you know it .
89. That is: The belief in the oneness of Allah is mainly the common denominator between the Muslims and the people of the Book. But the people of the book by wrongly interpreting the commands of Allah, have admitted innovations and polytheism in their religion with the result that it has cleared the room for holding the concept of three gods along with one God. Despite these alterations there is in the existing Torah and the Gospels, the basic teachings of the Tawheed (Oneness of Allah) e.g. in the Torah it is stated –
“You shall have no other gods before me.
You shall not make for yourself a graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth any like beneath, or that is in the water under the earth9, you shall not bow down to them or serve them for I the Lord your God am a Jealous God.” ( Deutronomy 5:7 to 9)
And it is written in the Gospel: “You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.” (Luke4:8)
Jesus answered. ‘The first is, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” (Mark 12: 29.30)
90. Taking others for Lord besides Allah does not mean that they may merely call a certain being as Lord but that it also means that if people take what is declared by him permissible as such (halal) and what is forbidden by him as forbidden (haram), without any support from the Shariah then this also amounts to treating him as Lord or god because the right of deciding what is halal and what is haram is with Allah only, and to join anybody as his partner in this right is open polytheism to remove which and to free mankind from it, Islam has come in this world. It has been a misguided practice of the people of religions that they have been allowing their learned men, theologians, priests, monks, sufis, derveshes , pandits and yogis the right of interfering in the divine Shariah and of deciding what is halal and haram. Islam considers this course of action as equivalent to polytheism, Accordingly on the plea of certain people of the Book that they did not consider their monks and priests as their Lord (god), the Prophet asked whether they did not treat as halal what they declared halal and haram what they declared haram ‘? When they admitted that it was so then he said that this very thing makes them Lord. (Tafseer Ibn Katheer. Vol. II. p. 348. with reference to Tirmizi). Thus it makes it clear that to admit for some one the right to decide halal and haram is to make him Lord (god), whether that follower may be worshipping him (in the known sense) or not.
91. Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) is the grandfather of Bani Israil and Bani Ismail. Jews, Christians and the polytheists of Macca, all considered him as their religious leader and ascribed their religion to him. Their claim was that their religion was the original religion of Ibrahim and the religion to which Quran invites is a new religion. Refuting this claim and charge of theirs, Quran says that Judaism and Christianity came into being centuries after Ibrahim, then how can Ibrahim be a Jew or a Christian? It is obvious that it is the talk of ignorance. Similarly the polytheistic religion of the people of Macca is also an invented religion of a period long after Prophet Ibrahim. Prophet Ibrahim was not at all a polytheist. On the contrary he was the standard bearer of the belief of oneness of Allah and he was a Muslim.