The Holy Qur'an

The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary , translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Third edition in 1938. The Qur'ān is the central religious text of Islam. Muslims believe the Qur'an to be the literal word of God as revealed to Muhammad over a period of twenty-three years by the angel Gabriel and regard it as God's final revelation to mankind. — Excerpted from Qur'an on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Contents

• Preface To First Edition, 1934
• Preface To Third Edition, 1938
• Commentaries On The Qur'an
• Translations Of The Qur'an
• Useful Works Of Reference
• Transliteration of Arabic Words And Names
• Abbreviations Used
• Punctuation Marks in The Arabic Text
• Divisions Of The Qur'an
• Introductory Commentary

1. Fātiḥa, or the Opening Chapter
2. Baqara, or the Heifer
   Appendix 1: The Abbreviated Letters
3. Āl-i-’Imrān, or the Family of ’Imrān
4. Nisāa, or The Women
5. Māïda, or The Table Spread
   Appendix 2: On the Taurāt
   Appendix 3: On the Injīl
6. An’ām, or Cattle
7. A’rāf, or The Heights
   Appendix 4: Egyptian Chronology and Israel
   Appendix 5: Egyptian Religion and its steps towards Islam
8. Anfāl, or the Spoils of War
9. Tauba (Repentance) or Barāat (Immunity)
10. Yūnus, or Jonah
11. Hūd (The Prophet Hūd)
12. Yūsuf, or Joseph
    Appendix 6: Allegorical Interpretation of the Story of Joseph
13. Ra’d, or Thunder
14. Ibrāhim, or Abraham
15. Al-Ḥijr, or The Rocky Tract
16. Naḥl, or The Bee
17. Banī Isrā-īl, or the Children of Israel
18. Kahf, or the Cave
    Appendix 7: Who was Zul-qarnain?
19. Maryam, or Mary
20. Ṭā Hā
21. Anbiyāa, or the Prophets
22. Hajj, or the Pilgrimage
23. Mū-minūn, or The Believers
24. Nūr, or Light
    Appendix 8: Mystic Interpretation of the Verse of Light
25. Furqān, or The Criterion
26. Shu‘arāa, or The Poets
    Appendix 9: Thamūd Inscriptions at al-Hijr
27. Naml, or The Ants
28. Qaṣaṣ, or The Narration
29. ‘Ankabūt, or The Spider
30. Rūm, or The Roman Empire
    Appendix 10: First contact of Islam with World Movements
    Appendix 11: Comparative Chronology of the Early Years of Islam
31. Luqmān (the Wise)
32. Sajda, or Adoration
33. Aḥzāb, or The Confederates
34. Sabā, or the City of Sabā
35. Fāṭir, or The Originator or Creation; or Malāïka, the Angels
36. Yā-Sīn
37. Ṣāffāt, or those Ranged in Ranks
38. Ṣād
39. Zumar, or the Crowds
40. Mū-min, or The Believer
41. Hā-Mīm
42. Shūrā, or Consultation
43. Zukhruf, or Gold Adornments
44. Dukhān, or Smoke (or Mist)
45. Jāthiya, or Bowing the Knee
46. Aḥqāf, or Winding Sand-tracts
47. Muḥammad (the Prophet)
48. Fat-ḥ or Victory
49. Ḥujurāt, or the Inner Apartments
50. Qāf
51. Ẕāriyāt, or the Winds That Scatter
52. Ṭūr, or the Mount
53. Najm, or the Star
54. Qamar, or the Moon
    Appendix 12: The Muslim Heaven
55. Raḥmān, or (God) Most Gracious
56. Wāqi‘a, or the Inevitable Event
57. Ḥadid, or Iron
58. Mujādila, or The Woman who Pleads
59. Ḥashr, or The Gathering (or Banishment)
60. Mumtaḥana, or the Woman to be Examined
61. Ṣaff, or Battle Array
62. Jumu‘a, or the Assembly (Friday) Prayer
63. Munāfiqūn, or the Hypocrites
64. Tagābun, or Mutual Loss and Gain
65. Ṭalāq, or Divorce
66. Taḥrīm, or Holding (something) to be Forbidden
67. Mulk, or Dominion
68. Qalam, or the Pen, or Nūn
69. Ḥāqqa, or the Sure Reality
70. Ma‘ārij, or the Ways of Ascent
71. Nūḥ, or Noah
    Appendix 13: Ancient Forms of Pagan Worship
72. Jinn, or the Spirits
73. Muzzammil, or Folded in Garments
74. Muddaththir, or One Wrapped Up
75. Qiyāmat, or the Ressurection
76. Dahr, or Time; or Insān, or Man
77. Mursalāt, or Those Sent Forth
78. Nabaa, or the Great News
79. Nāzi’āt, or Those Who Tear Out
80. ’Abasa, or He Frowned
81. Takwīr, or the Folding Up
82. Infiṭār, or The Cleaving Asunder
83. Taṭfīt, or Dealing in Fraud
84. Inshiqāq, or The Rending Asunder
85. Burūj, or the Zodiacal Signs
86. Ṭāriq, or The Night-Visitant
87. A‘la, or The Most High
88. Gāshiya, or the Overwhelming Event
89. Fajr, or Dawn
90. Balad, or the City
91. Shams, or The Sun
92. Lail, or The Night
93. Dhuḥā, or The Glorious Morning Light
94. Inshirāḥ, or the Expansion
95. Tīn, or the Fig
96. Iqraa, or Read!, or Proclaim!
97. Qadr, or The Night of Power (or Honor)
98. Baiyina, or The Clear Evidence
99. Zilzāl, or The Convulsion
100. ’Ādiyāt, or Those Who Run
101. Al-Qāri’a, or The Day of Noise and Clamor
102. Takathur, or Piling Up
103. ‘Aṣr, or Time through the Ages
     Appendix 14: Oaths and Adjurations in the Qur’ān
104. Humaza, or the Scandal-monger
105. Fīl, or The Elephant
106. Quraish, or The Quraish, (Custodians of the Ka’ba)
107. Mā’ūn, or Neighborly Needs
108. Kauthar, or Abundance
109. Kāfirūn, or Those who reject Faith
110. Naṣr, or Help
111. Lahab, or The Flame
112. Ikhlāṣ, or Purity (of Faith)
113. Falaq, or The Dawn
114. Nās, or Mankind

• Commentary Concluded
• L'envoi

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