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The
Holy Quran :
2. Al-Baqarah
161.
Verily,
those who disbelieve, and die while they
are disbelievers,
it is they on
whom is the Curse of Allâh and
of the angels and of mankind, combined.
162.
They will
abide therein (under the curse in Hell),
their punishment will neither be lightened,
nor will they be reprieved.
163.
And your Ilâh (God)
is One Ilâh (God - Allâh), Lâ ilâha
illa Huwa (there is none who has the right to be worshipped but He),
the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
164.
Verily!
In the creation of the heavens and the
earth, and in the alternation
of night and day, and the ships which sail through the sea with
that which is of use to mankind, and the
water (rain) which Allâh sends
down from the sky and makes the earth alive therewith after its
death, and
the moving (living) creatures of all kinds that He has scattered
therein, and in the veering of winds and clouds which are held
between the sky
and the earth, are indeed Ayât (proofs, evidences, signs, etc.)
for people of understanding.
165.
And of mankind
are some who take (for worship) others
besides Allâh as
rivals[] (to Allâh). They love them as they love Allâh.
But those who believe, love Allâh more (than anything else). If only,
those who do wrong could see, when they will see the torment, that all
power
belongs to Allâh and that Allâh is Severe in punishment.
166.
When those
who were followed, disown (declare themselves
innocent of) those who followed (them), and
they see the torment, then all their relations
will be cut off from them.
167.
And those
who followed will say: "If only we had one
more chance to return (to the worldly life),
we would disown (declare ourselves as innocent
from)
them as they have disowned (declared themselves as innocent from) us." Thus
Allâh will show them their deeds as regrets for them. And they will
never get out of the Fire .
168.
O mankind!
Eat of that which is lawful and good on the
earth, and follow not the footsteps of Shaitân (Satan).
Verily, he is to you an open enemy.
169.
[Shaitân (Satan)]
commands you only what is evil and Fahshâ (sinful),
and that you should say against Allâh what you know not.
170.
When it
is said to them: "Follow what Allâh has sent
down." They say: "Nay!
We shall follow what we found our fathers following." (Would they
do that!) Even though their fathers did not understand anything nor
were
they guided?
Warning! Please keep in mind all any
translation (interpretation) of the Qur'an will most
definitely contain errors In its natural language
(Arabic), the Holy Qur'an is the direct Word of Allah
(God) to mankind through the prophet
Muhammad (peace be upon him). Any translation of the Qur'an no longer retains
that 'official' and perfect status, however it can be tremendously helpful
to beginning students wanting to learn more about Islam.
We would strongly
encourage those want to learn about Islam to purchase
a hardcopy of the Qur'an but with the following conditions:
get one with commentary
(tafseer)
make sure the tafseer is scholarly (e.g. references to reasons behind a verse,
references to hadith and sunnah, etc.)
Unfortunately,
this interpretation presented here does NOT meet
this simple conditions. To the best of our knowledge,
an excellent English translation and commentary of
the Qur'an is Maududi's recently published work "The
Meaning of the Qur'an". This work took more
than forty years to complete, and was published beginning
in the mid to late 1980's. Maududi's introduction
to each chapter of the Qur'an is included at the
moment, but the complete commentary is not online
(yet!).
TRANSLATED QURAN CREDIT's
Syed
Abu-Ala' Maududi's, Chapter
Introductions to the Qur'an, The Meaning of The Noble Quran
In the English Language, A Summarized Version of At-Tabari, Al-Qurtubi
and Ibn Kathir with comments from Sahih Al-Bukhari By
Dr. Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din Al-Hilali, Ph.D. and Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan
