The Holy Qur’an Openly Tells the Truth

The Holy Qur’an Openly Tells the Truth

The Qur’an is a book that everyone can easily read, learn and understand. Our Book explains things in ways that we can understand easily. Its most important characteristic is that it can be read and memorised with ease. Th ere is no other book in the world that can claim to have the same characteristics. Sometimes stories are used in order for us to better understand certain messages. Th ese stories provide advice, just as there is a moral in every fable. Sometimes its hard to understand certain verses. In those instances one can refer to books that deal specifi cally with the interpretation of the Qur’an which provide an in depth explanation of the Qur’an. Th en there is the translation of the Qur’an into other languages, for example an English translation of the Qur’an. Tefsir, on the other hand, is a detailed interpretation of each verse in the Qur’an. If we need to understand what a verse is trying to say then tefsir books must be resorted to. If it is the English meaning that we are, for example, interested in then we would resort to the English translation of the Qur’an. For instance, if we want to know the meaning of the fi rst verse of Chapter Fatiha, ‘Al-hamdu lillahi rabb al-alameen,’ which is recited in each of the 5 daily prayers, we would fi nd that it means, “Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.” However, if we are interested in fi nding out the meaning in more detail we would refer to a tefsir book.