english translation of surah ayatul kursi

Pickthall: Allah! There is no deity save Him, the Alive, the Eternal. His Kursi extends over the heavens and the earth, and their preservation tires Him not. Who is it that can intercede with Him except by His permission? He knows what is before them and what will be after them, and they encompass not a thing of His knowledge except for what He wills. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. Neither drowsiness overtakes Him nor sleep. We do not blame an artist who tries to catch in his picture something of the glorious light of a spring landscape.Sahih International: Allah - there is no deity except Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of existence. Greatly daring, I have made that attempt. His rendering is “almost literal”: it can hardly be expected that it can give an adequate idea of a Book which (in his own words) can be described as “that inimitable symphony the very sounds of which move men to tears and ecstasy.” Perhaps the attempt to catch something of that symphony in another language is impossible. But he has added very few notes to elucidate the Text. He is an English Muslim, a literary man of standing, and an Arabic scholar.

Marmaduke Pickthall’s translation was published in 1930. In many cases the Arabic words and phrases are so pregnant of meaning that a Translator would be in despair unless he were allowed to explain all that he understands by them. I think such notes are necessary for a full understanding of the Text. He has provided fairly full summaries of the Sūras, section by section, but he has practically no notes to his Text. Hafiz Gulām Sarwar’s translation (published in 1930 or 1929) deserves to be better known than it is.

But they have been published without the Arabic Text. There are two other Muslim translations of great merit. But the English of the Text is decidedly weak, and is not likely to appeal to those who know no Arabic. It is a scholarly work, and is equipped with adequate explanatory matter in the notes and the Preface, and a fairly full Index. Its Lahore Anjuman has published Maulvi Muhammad ‘Alī’s translation (first edition in 1917), which has passed through more than one edition. Its Qādiyān Anjuman published a version of the first Sīpāra in 1915. The Ahmadīya Sect has also been active in the field. My dear friend, the late Nawwāb ‘Imād-ul-Mulk Saiyid Husain Bilgrāmī of Hyderabad, Deccan, translated a portion, but he did not live to complete his work. Mīrzā Hairat of Delhi also published a translation, (Delhi 1919): the Commentary which he intended to publish in a separate volume of Introduction was, as far as I know, never published. Muhammad ‘Abdul Hakim Khān, of Patiala, 1905. In the notes to this copy of the Quran’s translation, Abdullah Yusuf Ali writes, “The first Muslim to undertake an English translation was Dr.

English translation of surah ayatul kursi