The Qurán. Translated into the Urdu language

1876·27.2 MB·English

by  Dihlaw, Abd al-Qdir, 1753-1813

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THE QURAN,
TRANSLATED INTO THE URDU LANGUAGE
BT
Shaikh Abdul Qadir Ibn i Shah Wali Ullah,
OF Delhi, A. D. 1790,
WITH A PREFACE AND INTSODUCTION IN ENGLISH
BY THE
REV. T. P. HUGHES, C. M. S.
PESHAWAR,
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' • BY
THE REV. E. M. WHERRY.
Printed and Published'*
AT
THE MISSIOIf PRESS, LODIANA.
1876.
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THE PREFACE.
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The present work is a transliteration into Roman Urdu of
ShaikhAbdul Qadir'sTJrdu TranslationoftheQuran,published
for the use of Missionaries and others, engaged in evangelistic
work amongst the Muhammadans ofIndia,
Although there is no authorized translation of the Quran in
any language, that by Abdul Qadir is held in high estimation
by learned Muslims, and Nawab Sadiq Hasan ofBhopal in his
book, cal—led the Iksir, bears the following testimony to its
integrity. "It is in the popular idiom and is profitable for all
classes ofpeople, indeed it is so well known, and so acceptable
amongst Muslims asto need no recommendation, and the fact
that it ha^'^i^^n'^Drintedover and over again by different print-
ing jTresses is a proofthat its popularity is daily increasino-.''"
A
quotation from this translation will, therefore, be accepted -4WJ
by Muhammadan doctors, as being a correct rendering of the
original Arabic, and it is hoped that its 'publication will be
ofsome service to the Christian Evangelist, as it will enable
him toquotethe Quranin idiomatic Urdu from a translationof
admitted authority amongst the Muhammadans themselves.
Shaikh Abdul Qadir lived at Delhi, about eighty years agO',
andwas ason of the celebratedMoulvie.Shah Wali Ulldh, wbp
is the author ofvery numerous works on Muhammadan Law.
Shah Wali LFllah translated the Quran into Persian, and it is
Cl) The Iksfr, by Nawab Sadiq Hasan, Cawnpur A. II. ]290 A. D. 1873,
page 106.
PREFACE.
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said, that his son availed himself ofthe critic^^ scholarship of
his fatherin producinghis Urdiiversion, whichfirst appeared in
the year ofthe Hijra 1205 (A. D. 1790j.
The Quran wasfirstprinted in Roman Urdu type atthe Allah-
abad Mission Press A. D. 1844, andwas published withcontro-
versial N"otesand Comments. The present workhas been trans-
literated from a Persian Urdutranslation printed atthe Matbai
MuhammadiBombay,A.D.1853,andinsteadofthecontroversial
Kotes ofthe former edition, a broad marginhasbeenleft, upon
which the^Christian controversialist can inscribe his own com-
ments and references.
The Index, has been specially compiledfor this edition bythe
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Rev. E. Wherry, ofthe Lodiaua Mission; and the Introduc-
tory Essay, bythe Rev. T. P. Hughes, is intended as aguideto
an intelligent study ofthe Quran, according to the principles
laid downin the exegetical treatises of Muhammadan scholars.
It is perhaps not altogether unnecessary, that those who are
not fully acquainted with the tenets of the Muslim religion
should be informed, that the Quran does not containthewhole
ofthe Muhammadancreed,butthatallMuhammadans,whether
Shiab, Sunni, or Waliabi, receive the Hadisor sayingsoftheir
Prophet side by side with the Quran itself.^ Eo^' example the
daily prayer, which is regarded asadivineinstitution, is-found-
ed upon the teaching of the traditions, the injunctionscontain-
ed in the Quran on the subject being exceedingly meagre.
Everything Muhammad said, or did, with regard to matters
(1) The seven principal collections ofTraditions, (Ahadis,) receivf'^ by
the Sunnis, are those by Imam Muhammad-bin-Ismail Bokhari, Imam
Muslim, Abu Tsa Tirmizi, Abu Daud, Abu Abdul Ealiman Nasai, Abu Ab-
dullah ibn-i-Majah and ImamMalik. Aselection, from the above tradition-
ists, will be foundinthe Mishkat-ul-Musabih,awork which has beentrans-
latedinto English, (New edition. W. H. Allen and Co. London). The tra-
ditions acknowledged by the Shiahs are found in the five books entitled
Kafi, Manlayazarah-ul-Faqih, Tahzib, Istibsar, and Nahaj-ul-Balaghat» The
mostimportantofthese Shiah traditions are collected in a work called the
Hayat-ul-Kulub, an English translation of which is published. (Phillips
Sampson and Co. Boston. U. S. 1850.)
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