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quran

The Arabic of the Quran is majestic, melodious, and moving. The experience of reading the Quran in English, however, can feel fragmented and difficult.

Nuh Keller’s new translation of the Quran resolves this by paying special attention to the Quran’s rhetorical and linguistic depth. The translation stands out for its sheer accuracy, simple elegance, and supreme readability.

It opens a door onto the Quran’s meanings and majesty. English readers can now behold the message of the most important book in human history.

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1. In the Name of Allah Most Merciful and Compassionate:

2. All praise is Allah's,
Lord of all Worlds of Beings,

3. Most Merciful and Compassionate,

4. Master of the Day of Reckoning

5. You alone we humbly adore and in You alone we seek help.

6. Guide us the Straight Way:

7. The way of those You have divinely blessed,
who have not then incurred wrath,
or utterly lost the way.

ayat al-kursi

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255. Allah, no god is there but He,
the Living, the Everlasting Source of All Being,
slumber nor sleep overtake Him,

His is all that is in the heavens and all on earth.

Who should ever intercede with Him save by His leave?

He knows all that takes place before their eyes
and what lies yet unknown beyond them,
and they encompass nothing of His knowledge,
but what He wills.

His very footstool compasses the heavens and earth,
and preserving them burdens Him not,
and He is the All-high, the Incomparably Supreme.

the all-merciful

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17. Lord of the two horizon-extremities of sunrise
in summer and winter, and the two of sunset;

18. So which of the mighty blessings of your Lord can either of you deny?

19. He has loosed the two seas upon each other seething
back and forth while meeting;

20. Between them a great unseen barrier;
neither can overreach the other

21. So which of the mighty blessings of your Lord can you deny?

1. In the Name of Allah Most Merciful and Compassionate:

2. All praise is Allah's,
Lord of all Worlds of Beings,

3. Most Merciful and Compassionate,

4. Master of the Day of Reckoning:

5. You alone we humbly adore and in You alone we seek help.

6. Guide us the Straight Way:

7. The way of those You have divinely blessed,
who have not then incurred wrath,
or utterly lost the way.

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255. Allah, no god is there but He,
the Living, the Everlasting Source of All Being,
slumber nor sleep overtake Him,

His is all that is in the heavens and all on earth.

Who should ever intercede with Him save by His leave?

He knows all that takes place before their eyes
and what lies yet unknown beyond them,
and they encompass nothing of His knowledge
but what He wills.

His very footstool compasses the heavens and earth,
and preserving them burdens Him not,
and He is the All-high, the Incomparably Supreme.

17. Lord of the two horizon-extremities of sunrise
in summer and winter, and the two of sunset;

18. So which of the mighty blessings of your Lord can either of you deny?

19. He has loosed the two seas upon each other seething
back and forth while meeting;

20. Between them a great unseen barrier:
neither can overreach the other;

21. So which of the mighty blessings of your Lord can you deny?

nuh ha mim

keller

Nuh Ha Mim Keller was born in eastern Washington State in 1954. He read philosophy at Gonzaga University, the University of Chicago, and UCLA, entered Islam in 1977 at al-Azhar in Cairo, and moved to Jordan in 1980. A scholar of traditional Islamic sciences who studied with sheikhs in Jordan and Syria, he has produced such works as Reliance of the Traveller, Sea Without Shore, and the Chain of Gold edition of Dala'il al-Khayrat. He is a senior fellow at the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought.

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