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The Easy Dictionary of the Qur’aan
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Compiled
By
Shaikh
AbdulKarim Parekh
Translated By
(Late)
AbdurRasheed Kamptee
Dr.
Abdulazeez Abdulraheem
Shaikh
AbdulGhafoor
Parekh
The book version has
been printed in Urdu more than 40 times and is now available in many
different languages. It has been a means
of bringing numerous peoples closer to the book of Allah.
Some of the unique features of this book are:
· It presents the meanings of the Arabic words of the Qur’aan in the order of their occurrence. It avoids repetition of words to a great extent. However, the words are repeated quite a few times for the facility of the reader.
· It avoids the painful exercise of locating each word in a dictionary.
· Since you will learn the Arabic through the Qur’aan, you will have the double advantage, of learning Arabic and learning the Qur’aan. So whatever effort you spend, will directly be counted, Insha-Allah, as ‘hasanah’ (a good deed).
· You will instantly feel the effects of studying this book in your daily Prayers, insha-Allah. This will encourage you to keep going. Such encouragement may not be there if you learn Arabic from any other source.
·
The internet version
alows you to print out, view on computer screen in office or at home. When you take a break, just start memorizing
the words of those Surahs you plan to study or review words of those
Surahs which you have covered so far.
As you will see from the statistics, the new words in each Parah decreases drastically. In principle, if you take out the repeated words, the total number of words in Qur'aan may well be less than 2000!!! Allah Subhanahu wa ta'aala has revealed His book which contains so few words. This is another miracle of the Qur'aan. These statistics should give you a strong push to go ahead and continue memorizing till the end of this book, inshaAllah.
Why we have the file in Adobe Acrobat reader (pdf format)
We tried many different ways to put the file. We saw that it will be difficult for every net user to have Arabic fonts, so we tried to put it jpg and gif formats, but the file size was too large. We finally decided to put in pdf format. With pdf reader you can zoom the size of the text to your preference , you can print it without the need to install Arabic fonts and the file size is comparatively very small. You DO NOT have to download Adobe Acrobat reader for Arabic but your already downloaded English version of Adobe Acrobat reader version 4.05 will work. We have tested the files with Adobe Acrobat Reader, English version 4.05.
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Sample Quraan words
Foreword
by Shaikh Syed Abul-Hasan Ali Nadwi
(Written
for the original Urdu version of Lughatul-Qur’aan)
All praise and
thanks be to Allah, and peace be upon His chosen bondsmen and women!
The Qur’aan is
the final revealed Book that contains the message of guidance from
Allah for all humankind. Accordingly, the
salvation as well as worldly welfare of the entire humanity depends
upon following the guidance ordained in this Divine Book.
In other words, success in this world as well as the Hereafter
for humankind is treasured in this great Book. Therefore,
there is an endless need to compile Qur’aanic expositions (in the
context of modern challenges and evolving circumstances) while calling
people towards understanding its eternal message.
Indeed, blessed are
those who have been given the opportunity to serve the Qur’aan in
one way or another, and more so if the effort receives general
acceptance among the public. This
recognition fulfills the very objective of providing an easy way for
reading and understanding the Qur’aan.
Our beloved Al-Haaj
AbdulKarim Parekh is one of these fortunate men who has served the
Qur’aan. He is well-known through
his popular lectures and lifelong service of propagating the message of
Islam. He is an ardent caller towards the
Qur’aan. In the city of Nagpur,
India, his regular Qur’aanic lessons (Dars-e-Qur’aan)
have affected the Muslim youth, especially the educated class, and
kindled in them the spirit of servitude to Islam and living according
to the tenets of the Qur’aan in everyday life.
Till this day Shaikh Parekh is engaged in this sterling service
to Islam despite his demanding occupation as a merchant.
His book, entitled Lughatul-Qur’aan,
is part of his literary service which he wrote in Urdu in order to
convey the message of the Qur’aan among the common and educated
class alike so as to make understanding the Qur’aan easy for them. The evidence of its wide acceptance is that
within 15 to 20 years, more than a dozen editions of the book have been
printed. He has translated the difficult
words of each Juz’ (parah) with the help of authentic
translations and according to the context in which the word is used. He has also provided the root of the word
(verb) wherever necessary. Brief rules of
Arabic grammar are also provided at the beginning of the book. This way, the book has become a key for Arabic
words as well as a guide to studying the Qur’aan with the least
effort.
It may be mentioned
here that because of my busy schedule, I could only browse through the
book casually. May Allah reward the author
and increase the usefulness and acceptance of the book, Ameen!
Syed Abul-Hasan Ali Nadwi
Rector, Nadwatul
Ulama
Lukhnow, India
Shaikh AbdulKarim
Parekh has been an ardent promoter of the message of the Holy
Qur’aan among the people, especially in the Indian Subcontinent. He is widely acclaimed for his lectures and Duroos
(discourses and commentaries on the Holy Qur’aan), which he has
been delivering for the last forty years.
Among his notable
works is the translation and commentary of the Holy Qur’aan in
simple Urdu. The emphasis on simplicity of
language was to convey the message of Qur’aan to common men and
women of the Indian subcontinent, who in general are semiliterate. His composition, the Lughatul-Qur’aan
(Dictionary of Qur’aan) has been published more than forty times
since 1952 and has enabled countless people in India and Pakistan to
develop a direct link with the Book of Allah. The
foreword of Lughatul-Qur’aan was written by the well
known scholar, Shaikh Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi.
The book has also been translated and published in some other
major languages, including Hindi, Gujrati, Bengali, and Turkish.
Shaikh Parekh has
authored various other books, such as Qaum-e-Yahud Aur Hum:
Qur’aan ki Raushni Mein (Jews and us: In the light of the
Qur’aan), Ooper ki Dunya (The world above us), Bahno
ki Najat (Salvation for sisters), Aurat ki Tauheen (Insult
of the woman), Vigyan Yug Mein Islam
Dharam (The religion of Islam in the age of science), etc.
His lectures and Duroos
are available in the form of audio cassettes. Recently,
the AVM Studio of Madras produced a set of 30 audio cassettes
containing the Urdu translation of the Holy Qur’aan along with
the Arabic recitation by the most respectable Qari of India, Hafiz
Qasim Ansari.
Besides Hindi, Urdu,
Marathi, English, Arabic, Gujrati, and Sindhi, Shaikh Parekh has a good
command of Sanskrit, the language of Hindu religious books. His deep knowledge of other religions, such as
Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and other
faiths, puts him in a distinguished class of Islamic scholars. In fact, he is considered as one of the most
versatile scholars for addressing inter-religious conferences and
seminars, conducting dialogues and interacting with non-Muslim scholars.
Shaikh Parekh deals
with modern challenges and conflicts in the light of the Holy
Qur’aan. He is highly appreciated by
one and all.
Being a timber
merchant by profession, Shaikh Parekh is well aware of day to day
problems, conflicts, and the whole gamut of day-to-day realities faced
by Indian Muslims. His approach for
uplifting Muslims in India, therefore, carries a lot of weight. His incessant activities have taken him to
serve various organizations, some of which are listed below:
·
Managing Committee,
Nadwatul-Ulama, Luckhnow, India
·
All India Muslim
Personal Law Board (Treasurer)
·
All India Muslim
Majlis-e-Mushawarat
·
Faculty of Theology,
Aligarh Muslim University
·
Majlis-e-Ta’limul-Qur’aan,
Nagpur
·
Central India
Institute of Medical Sciences
·
Citizen’s
Peace Committee, Nagpur
In short, Shaikh Parekh has dedicated his life to spreading the message of the Qur’aan to both Muslims and non-Muslims. He pays special attention to educating the Muslim women who are a neglected lot in India. He has contributed greatly to building a cordial atmosphere among various religious communities of India. This is essential in propagating the message of Islam.
Start with Part I
and be thorough with it. Spend a couple of
days with Part II, since it will be extremely helpful later on. After that you will be ready to study the main
part. Just follow these steps:
· Start from the beginning (Surah Al-Baqarah, Al-e-Imran, and so on).
· Go page by page or Ruku by Ruku or whatever part of the Qur’aan you are comfortable with.
·
For each part, (a)
memorize the meanings of new words; (b) read the translation and try to
connect the Arabic words and their meanings with the translation.
Read the Tafseer of
that part. The Tafseer will remind you of
the meanings, and meanings will remind you of the Tafseer.
For example, while reciting Surah “the elephant”, if
you remember the meaning of just one word, Fil, the whole story of
Abraha will come to your mind instantly (if you had read the Tafseer). Further, once the story is there in your mind,
it will help you remember the meanings of some of those words in the
Surah which you may have forgotten.
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First
Edition Second Edition Third
Edition Fourth
Edition Fifth
Edition Sixth
Edition Seventh
Edition Eighth
Edition Ninth
Edition Tenth
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Mar. 1952 Jul.
1954 Jul.
1960 Sep. 1962 Nov.
1963 Aug.
1965 Dec.
1968 Sep.
1969 Jun.
1973 1977 |
Second Revised
English Edition: 1997
Available at the
following addresses in India:
Maulana AbdulKarim Parekh
Lakad Gunj, Nagpur 8, INDIA
Maktaba
Nadwatul-Ulama
