Tafheem-ul-Quran - Abul Ala Maududi translation for Surah Muhammad

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Tafheem-ul-Quran - Abul Ala Maududi translation for Surah Muhammad — Ayah 1

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47:1

ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ وَصَدُّواْ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ أَضَلَّ أَعۡمَٰلَهُمۡ ١

Allah has caused the works of those who disbelieve¹ and hinder people from the way of Allah² to go to waste.³

Footnotes

[1] The Arabic word used is Qur’an which literally means ‘recital’ or ‘recitation’.
[2] Qira’at: Ibn Kathir and Shuʻba read it as: “Upon them are garments of green silk, and (upon them is) brocade . . .”Abu ʻAmr, Ibn ʻAmer, Abu Jaʻfar and Yaʻqub read it as: “. . . green garments of silk and of brocade . . .”Nafei’ read it as Hafs, while all the rest read it as: “. . . them are garments of green silk and of brocade . . .”
[3] The Arabic word used also means ‘mention’.
[4] Those who disbelieved: Those who refused to accept the teachings and guidance presented by Muhammad (peace be upon him).
[5] The verb sadd (from which saddu of the original is derived) is used both as a transitive and as an intransitive verb in Arabic.
[6] Therefore, the sentence would mean “they themselves refrained from adopting Allah’s Way” as well as “they prevented others from adopting this way.” There are several ways of preventing others from adopting Allah’s Way:

Translations are available in both JSON and SQLite database formats. Some translation has footnotes as well, footnotes are embedded in the translation text using sup HTML tag. To support a wide range of applications, including websites, mobile apps, and desktop tools, we provide multiple export formats for translations.

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1. Nested Array Structure

Translations are grouped by Surah. Each Surah is an array containing translations for each Ayah in order. This format export translations as simple text, no formatting, no footnotes.

[
  ["translation of 1:1", "translation of 1:2"], ...
  ["translation of 2:1", "translation of 2:2"]
]

2. Key-Value Structure

Each translation is stored with the Ayah reference (e.g. 1:1) as the key and the translated text as the value. This format also exports translations as simple text, no formatting, no footnotes etc.

{
  "1:1": "translation of 1:1",
  "1:2": "translation of 1:2",
  ...
  "114:6": "translation of 114:6"
}

Translations with Footnotes

Translations with footnotes are available in three more formats:

1. Footnotes as Tags Format

Footnotes are embedded using a <sup> tag with a foot_note attribute. Footnote contents are stored separately under f key.

{
  "88:17": {
    "t": "Do the disbelievers not see how rain clouds are formed <sup foot_note=\"77646\">1</sup>",
    "f": {
      "77646": "The word ibl can mean 'camel' as well as 'rain cloud'..."
    }
  }
}

2. Inline Footnote Format

Footnotes are inserted directly using double square brackets e.g([[this is footnote]])

{
  "88:17": "Do the disbelievers not see how rain clouds are formed [[The word ibl can mean 'camel' as well as 'rain cloud'...]]"
}

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Above translation will be exported in chunks as:

<i class="s">(from the whisperers)</i>among the race of unseen beings<sup foot_note="81506">1</sup>and mankind.”


      [
      {"type":"i","text":"(from the whisperers)"}, // first chunk, should be formatted as italic
      "among the race of unseen beings", //second chunk in simple text
      {"type":"f","f":"81506","text":"1"}, // third chunk is a footnote,
      "and mankind.”"
      ]