Ali Quli Qarai 2005

Preface

Contents

Publisher’s Note

Translator’s Preface

Sources Consulted

Transliteration of Arabic Words

A Supplication for Recitation on Commencing a Reading of the Qur’ān

The Qur’an

1 Sūrat al-Fātiḥah (The Opening)

2 Sūrat al-Baqarah (The Heifer)

3 Sūrat Āl-i ‘Imrān (Family of Imran)

4 Sūrat al-Nisā’ (Women)

5 Sūrat al-Mā’idah (The Table)

6 Sūrat al-An‘ām (Cattle)

7 Sūrat al-A‘rāf (The Elevations)

8 Sūrat al-Anfāl (The Spoils)

9 Sūrat al-Tawbah (Repentance)

10 Sūrat Yūnus (Jonah)

11 Sūrat Hūd (Hūd)

12 Sūrat Yūsuf (Joseph)

13 Sūrat al-Ra‘d (Thunder)

14 Sūrat Ibrāhīm (Abraham)

15 Sūrat al-Ḥijr (Ḥijr)

16 Sūrat al-Naḥl (The Bee)

17 Sūrat al-Isrā’ (The Night Journey)

18 Sūrat al-Kahf (The Cave)

19 Sūrat Maryam (Mary)

20 Sūrat Ṭa Ḥā (Ṭā Hā)

21 Sūrat al-Anbiyā’ (The Prophets)

22 Sūrat al-Ḥajj (The Pilgrimage)

23 Sūrat al-Mu’minūn (The Faithful)

24 Sūrat al-Nūr (Light)

25 Sūrat al-Furqān (The Criterion)

26 Sūrat al-Shu‘arā’ (Poets)

27 Sūrat al-Naml (The Ant)

28 Sūrat al-Qaṣaṣ (The Story)

29 Sūrat al-‘Ankabūt (The Spider)

30 Sūrat al-Rūm (Byzantium)

31 Sūrat Luqmān (Luqmān)

32 Sūrat al-Sajdah (Prostration)

33 Sūrat al-Aḥzāb (The Confederates)

34 Sūrat Saba’ (Sheba)

35 Sūrat al-Fāṭir (The Originator)

36 Sūrat Yā Sīn (Yā Sīn)

37 Sūrat al-Ṣaffāt (The Ranged Ones)

38 Sūrat Ṣād (Ṣād)

39 Sūrat al-Zumar (Throngs)

40 Sūrat al-Ghāfir (The Forgiver)

41 Sūrat Fuṣṣilat (Elaborated)

42 Sūrat al-Shūrā (Counsel)

43 Sūrat al-Zukhruf (Ornaments)

44 Sūrat al-Dukhān (Smoke)

45 Sūrat al-Jāthiyah (Crowling)

46 Sūrat al-Aḥqāf (Aḥqāf)

47 Sūrat Muḥammad

48 Sūrat al-Fatḥ (Victory)

49 Sūrat al-Ḥujurāt (Apartments)

50 Sūrat Qāf (Qāf)

51 Sūrat al-Dhāriyāt (The Scatterers)

52 Sūrat al-Ṭūr (The Mount)

53 Sūrat al-Najm (The Star)

54 Sūrat al-Qamar (The Moon)

55 Sūrat al-Raḥmān (The All-beneficent)

56 Sūrat al-Wāqi‘ah (The Imminent)

57 Sūrat al-Ḥadīd (Iron)

58 Sūrat al-Mujādilah (The Pleader)

59 Sūrat al-Ḥashr (The Banishment)

60 Sūrat al-Mumtaḥanah (The Woman Tested)

61 Sūrat al-Ṣaff (Ranks)

62 Sūrat al-Jumu‘ah (Friday)

63 Sūrat al-Munāfiqūn (The Hypocrites)

64 Sūrat al-Taghābun (Dispossession)

65 Sūrat al-Ṭalāq (Divorce)

66 Sūrat al-Taḥrīm (The Forbidding)

67 Sūrat al-Mulk (Sovereignty)

68 Sūrat al-Qalam (The Pen)

69 Sūrat al-Ḥāqqah (The Besieger)

70 Sūrat al-Ma‘ārij (Lofty Stations)

71 Sūrat Nūḥ (Noah)

72 Sūrat al-Jinn (The Jinn)

73 Sūrat al-Muzzammil (Enwrapped)

74 Sūrat al-Muddaththir (Shrouded)

75 Sūrat al-Qiyāmah (Resurrection)

76 Sūrat al-Insān (Man)

77 Sūrat al-Mursalāt (The Emissaries)

78 Sūrat al-Naba’ (The Tiding)

79 Sūrat al-Nāzi‘āt (The Wresters)

80 Sūrat al-‘Abasa (He Frowned)

81 Sūrat al-Takwīr (The Winding Up)

82 Sūrat al-Infiṭār (The Rending)

83 Sūrat al-Muṭaffifīn (The Defrauders)

84 Sūrat al-Inshiqāq (The Splitting)

85 Sūrat al-Burūj (The Houses)

86 Sūrat al-Ṭāriq (The Nightly Visitor)

87 Sūrat al-A‘lā (The Most Exalted)

88 Sūrat al-Ghāshiyah (The Enveloper)

89 Sūrat al-Fajr (The Dawn)

90 Sūrat al-Balad (The Town)

91 Sūrat al-Shams (The Sun)

92 Sūrat al-Layl (The Night)

93 Sūrat al-Ḍuḥā (Morning Brightness)

94 Sūrat al-Sharḥ (Opening)

95 Sūrat al-Tīn (The Fig)

96 Sūrat al-‘Alaq (The Clinging Mass)

97 Sūrat al-Qadr (The Ordainment)

98 Sūrat al-Bayyinah (The Proof)

99 Sūrat al-Zalzalah (The Quake)

100 Sūrat al-‘Ādiyāt (The Chargers)

101 Sūrat al-Qāri‘ah (The Catastrophe)

102 Sūrat al-Takāthur (Rivalry)

103 Sūrat al-‘Aṣr (Time)

104 Sūrat al-Humazah (The Scandal-monger)

105 Sūrat al-Fīl (The Elephant)

106 Sūrat Quraysh (Quraysh)

107 Sūrat al-Mā‘ūn (Aid)

108 Sūrat al-Kawthar (Abundance)

109 Sūrat al-Kāfirūn (The Faithless)

110 Sūrat al-Naṣr (Help)

111 Sūrat al-Masad (Palm Fibre)

112 Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ (Monotheism)

113 Sūrat al-Falaq (Daybreak)

114 Sūrat al-Nās (Humans)

Appendices

Prayer for Recitation on Completing a Reading of the Qur’ān Index of Subjects, Names and Terms

Key to the Signs Used in the Arabic Text

The Signs of Waqf