This blog, as the title suggests, is for Quranic Tafsir. The blog is a
temporary one as I plan on moving it, once it is done, to a self hosted
platform with a unique domain name.
The reason I have started the blog at blogger is because I usually do not go through with projects I begin. So I decided that this time around there is no use in spending money on a domain name and web hosting package unless I prove to myself that I can commit to this project.
My first idea was to create a website on my local computer. But I decided that there is no harm in putting up the material on a free web hosting platform such as blogger. Doing so will enable it to be public, and even if one person benefits from the Quranic information I put up here it will mean the world to me.
The Tafsir which I will be using for this blog is the famous Tafsir Al-Qurtubi. Tafsir Al-Qurtubi is a very good Tafsir. Unfortunately, there is no complete English Translation for the Tafsir. Ayesha Badawi did translate the first volume, I believe, but then due to disagreements with the publisher the project did not continue.
Even if it had, it would have been copyrighted with restrictions on how much of it could be made freely available. The work that I present here is completely free. It has no copyrights. You can copy paste everything posted on this website and do whatever you want with it provided you do not change what is written.
Editing what has been presented is not permissible. Other than that you can take what I have translated or paraphrased from the Tafsir and share it with friends on Facebook, make an E-book out of it, or make your own blog with the information. My purpose of doing this project is two fold.
خَيْرُكُمْ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ وَعَلَّمَهُ
"The best among you (Muslims) are those who learn the Qur'an and teach it."
[Sahih Al-Bukhaari - Hadith No. 5027]
If you find the project useful, I ask you for only one thing. I do not want your money. I do not want your praise. All praise is for Allah. And Rizq is from Allah. The former I am not deserving of and the later I have faith I will get through permissible means as teaching the Quran and taking money for it is not permissible. At least that is the opinion I follow.
All I request from you is to supplicate to Allah that He make both my life in this world and the next Paradise and never put me in any trial as I am a weak soul not capable of handling difficulty.
I will be using both the Arabic and Urdu translation of Tafsir Al-Qurtubi. Urdu is my native language, and the Urdu translation has been done beautifully with great accuracy. It allows me to make sure I do not stumble in the Arabic as that is not my native language.
However, no translation is perfect. Thus, I must resort to the Arabic as well.
I will paste up the Arabic and then slowly translate or paraphrase portions. You may see a post with nothing but Arabic text. Rest assured that the Arabic will be rendered into English, although in portions. You will have to keep checking back for updates. Rather than make a different post for each portion I get done, I will put up the chunk of Arabic I want to include in one Post, and then slowly work on rendering it into English.
This will keep the number of posts I have to create down to a minimum and make navigation for you, the reader, easier.
The blog is not really a blog as the oldest posts will show first. In a blog the newest posts show first. This is more of a website then it is a blog.
The reason I have started the blog at blogger is because I usually do not go through with projects I begin. So I decided that this time around there is no use in spending money on a domain name and web hosting package unless I prove to myself that I can commit to this project.
My first idea was to create a website on my local computer. But I decided that there is no harm in putting up the material on a free web hosting platform such as blogger. Doing so will enable it to be public, and even if one person benefits from the Quranic information I put up here it will mean the world to me.
Tafsir Al-Qurtubi
The Tafsir which I will be using for this blog is the famous Tafsir Al-Qurtubi. Tafsir Al-Qurtubi is a very good Tafsir. Unfortunately, there is no complete English Translation for the Tafsir. Ayesha Badawi did translate the first volume, I believe, but then due to disagreements with the publisher the project did not continue.
Even if it had, it would have been copyrighted with restrictions on how much of it could be made freely available. The work that I present here is completely free. It has no copyrights. You can copy paste everything posted on this website and do whatever you want with it provided you do not change what is written.
Editing what has been presented is not permissible. Other than that you can take what I have translated or paraphrased from the Tafsir and share it with friends on Facebook, make an E-book out of it, or make your own blog with the information. My purpose of doing this project is two fold.
- To read Tafsir Al-Qurtubi from cover to cover
- To pass on the information to others so that Allah be may make me the subject of the following Hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him)
خَيْرُكُمْ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ وَعَلَّمَهُ
"The best among you (Muslims) are those who learn the Qur'an and teach it."
[Sahih Al-Bukhaari - Hadith No. 5027]
A humble request
If you find the project useful, I ask you for only one thing. I do not want your money. I do not want your praise. All praise is for Allah. And Rizq is from Allah. The former I am not deserving of and the later I have faith I will get through permissible means as teaching the Quran and taking money for it is not permissible. At least that is the opinion I follow.
All I request from you is to supplicate to Allah that He make both my life in this world and the next Paradise and never put me in any trial as I am a weak soul not capable of handling difficulty.
Translation of Tafsir and Method
I will be using both the Arabic and Urdu translation of Tafsir Al-Qurtubi. Urdu is my native language, and the Urdu translation has been done beautifully with great accuracy. It allows me to make sure I do not stumble in the Arabic as that is not my native language.
However, no translation is perfect. Thus, I must resort to the Arabic as well.
I will paste up the Arabic and then slowly translate or paraphrase portions. You may see a post with nothing but Arabic text. Rest assured that the Arabic will be rendered into English, although in portions. You will have to keep checking back for updates. Rather than make a different post for each portion I get done, I will put up the chunk of Arabic I want to include in one Post, and then slowly work on rendering it into English.
This will keep the number of posts I have to create down to a minimum and make navigation for you, the reader, easier.
The blog is not really a blog as the oldest posts will show first. In a blog the newest posts show first. This is more of a website then it is a blog.
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