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Quintessence of Islam by Husain, Ashfaque

QUINTESSENCE OF ISLAM

From the Book

When a person who has no claim to scholarship or even to be considered a competent student of Islam offers a tract with the ambitious title “The Quintessence of Islam”, a word of explanation is called for.

In my endeavour to understand the Quran, I have read a number of translations and commentaries and the one which I have found stimulating and rewarding above all others is Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s Tarjumanul Quran.

Quite apart from its literary excellence, the lucid and illuminating com¬ mentary on the opening chapter of the Quran is a masterpiece by any standard.

 It has certainly helped at least one of its readers to understand the full meaning of that chapter and the teaching of the Qufan as a whole far better than he could have done otherwise. It is unfortunate therefore that it is not so far available in any other language except Urdu.

An adequate English translation will be a most valuable addition to Islamic literature in the English language.