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Islam Hypertext Quran Unicode Quran Palmer Part I (SBE06) Yusuf Ali Rodwell The Meaning of the Glorious Qur'ân, by M.M. Pickthall, at sacred-texts.com 1. al-Fatihah: The Opening 1 In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. 2 Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, 3 The Beneficent, the Merciful. 4 Master of the Day of Judgment, 5 Thee (alone) we worship; Thee (alone) we ask for help. 6 Show us the straight p...

The Meaning of the Glorious Qur'ân,: 1. al-Fatihah: The Opening · read the full passage

176 They ask thee for a pronouncement. Say: Allah hath pronounced for you concerning distant kindred. If a man die childless and he have a sister, hers is half the heritage, and he would have inherited from her had she died childless. And if there be two sisters, then theirs are two-thirds of the heritage, and if they be brethren, men and women, unto the male is the equivalent of the share of two females. Allah expou...

The Meaning of the Glorious Qur'ân,: 4. an-Nisa': Women · read the full passage

118 If Thou punish them, lo! they are Thy slaves, and if Thou forgive them (lo! they are Thy slaves). Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Mighty, the Wise. 119 Allah saith: This is a day in which their truthfulness profiteth the truthful, for theirs are Gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein they are secure for ever, Allah taking pleasure in them and they in Him. That is the great triumph. 120 Unto Allah belongeth th...

The Meaning of the Glorious Qur'ân,: 5. al-Ma'idah: The Food · read the full passage
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