The Qur’an Volume VI: Surahs 20-23

Translation by Camille Adams Helminski

This Volume VI contains fresh English translations of surahs 20-23 (Surah TaHa, Surah al-Anbiya, Surah al-Hajj, and Surah al-Mu’minun). This Volume VI is another central volume in the series of eleven volumes, God willing, which together are intended to hold the complete one hundred and fourteen surahs of the Holy Qur’an. Interspersed within the translation are transliterations of key terms and verses, so that the reader may have a sense of the flowing beauty of the original Qur’anic language.

We offer this translation to support the increased opening of our awareness to all the Compassionate Generosity of the Divine Bestowal—that Love that is always communicating with us, which we simply need to open our hearts to hear, and our eyes to see, and through which our hearts might be guided and nourished, with the blessing of that abundant Grace.

Category: Books

Description

This Volume VI of the Qur’an, which contains Surah TaHa, Surah al-Hajj (“the Pilgrimage”), Surah al-Anbiya (“the Prophets”), and Surah al-Mu’minun (“the Faithful”), offers moments of strong support and clarification of our purpose, continued guidance as to how to realign with the Source of our being.

And I unfurled upon you Love from Me [wa alqaytu ‘alayka mahabbatan minnee]—so that you might be brought up under My Eye ( in touch with the spring of My Love ).

For I have brought you up for (service and intimacy with) My Self. [Wa astan‘atuka li-Nafsi.] Go forth, you and your brother, with My Communications [bi Ayaati], and never let go of remembering Me [wa la taniya fi zhikri]. Go to Pharaoh, both of you, for truly, he has transgressed (beyond the bounds of what is right). But speak gently to him, so that perhaps he might remember, or come into awe.”

For one who comes to Hu as a faithful person, having done deeds of wholeness and reconciliation—for them are exalted stations, Gardens of Eternal Bliss, beneath which running waters flow: they will dwell there—that shall be the recompense for all those who purify themselves.

[Surah Ta Ha, 20:39; 41-44; 75-76]