Contents
- Preface To First Edition, 1934
- Preface To Third Edition, 1938
- Commentaries On The Qur'an
- Translations Of The Qur'an
- Useful Works Of Reference
- Transliteration of Arabic Words And Names
- Abbreviations Used
- Punctuation Marks in The Arabic Text
- Divisions Of The Qur'an
- Introductory Commentary
- Fātiḥa, or the Opening Chapter
- Baqara, or the Heifer
Appendix 1: The Abbreviated Letters - Āl-i-’Imrān, or the Family of ’Imrān
- Nisāa, or The Women
- Māïda, or The Table Spread
Appendix 2: On the Taurāt
Appendix 3: On the Injīl - An’ām, or Cattle
- A’rāf, or The Heights
Appendix 4: Egyptian Chronology and Israel
Appendix 5: Egyptian Religion and its steps towards Islam - Anfāl, or the Spoils of War
- Tauba (Repentance) or Barāat (Immunity)
- Yūnus, or Jonah
- Hūd (The Prophet Hūd)
- Yūsuf, or Joseph
Appendix 6: Allegorical Interpretation of the Story of Joseph - Ra’d, or Thunder
- Ibrāhim, or Abraham
- Al-Ḥijr, or The Rocky Tract
- Naḥl, or The Bee
- Banī Isrā-īl, or the Children of Israel
- Kahf, or the Cave
Appendix 7: Who was Zul-qarnain? - Maryam, or Mary
- Ṭā Hā
- Anbiyāa, or the Prophets
- Hajj, or the Pilgrimage
- Mū-minūn, or The Believers
- Nūr, or Light
Appendix 8: Mystic Interpretation of the Verse of Light - Furqān, or The Criterion
- Shu‘arāa, or The Poets
Appendix 9: Thamūd Inscriptions at al-Hijr - Naml, or The Ants
- Qaṣaṣ, or The Narration
- ‘Ankabūt, or The Spider
- Rūm, or The Roman Empire
Appendix 10: First contact of Islam with World Movements
Appendix 11: Comparative Chronology of the Early Years of Islam - Luqmān (the Wise)
- Sajda, or Adoration
- Aḥzāb, or The Confederates
- Sabā, or the City of Sabā
- Fāṭir, or The Originator or Creation; or Malāïka, the Angels
- Yā-Sīn
- Ṣāffāt, or those Ranged in Ranks
- Ṣād
- Zumar, or the Crowds
- Mū-min, or The Believer
- Hā-Mīm
- Shūrā, or Consultation
- Zukhruf, or Gold Adornments
- Dukhān, or Smoke (or Mist)
- Jāthiya, or Bowing the Knee
- Aḥqāf, or Winding Sand-tracts
- Muḥammad (the Prophet)
- Fat-ḥ or Victory
- Ḥujurāt, or the Inner Apartments
- Qāf
- Ẕāriyāt, or the Winds That Scatter
- Ṭūr, or the Mount
- Najm, or the Star
- Qamar, or the Moon
Appendix 12: The Muslim Heaven - Raḥmān, or (God) Most Gracious
- Wāqi‘a, or the Inevitable Event
- Ḥadid, or Iron
- Mujādila, or The Woman who Pleads
- Ḥashr, or The Gathering (or Banishment)
- Mumtaḥana, or the Woman to be Examined
- Ṣaff, or Battle Array
- Jumu‘a, or the Assembly (Friday) Prayer
- Munāfiqūn, or the Hypocrites
- Tagābun, or Mutual Loss and Gain
- Ṭalāq, or Divorce
- Taḥrīm, or Holding (something) to be Forbidden
- Mulk, or Dominion
- Qalam, or the Pen, or Nūn
- Ḥāqqa, or the Sure Reality
- Ma‘ārij, or the Ways of Ascent
- Nūḥ, or Noah
Appendix 13: Ancient Forms of Pagan Worship - Jinn, or the Spirits
- Muzzammil, or Folded in Garments
- Muddaththir, or One Wrapped Up
- Qiyāmat, or the Ressurection
- Dahr, or Time; or Insān, or Man
- Mursalāt, or Those Sent Forth
- Nabaa, or the Great News
- Nāzi’āt, or Those Who Tear Out
- ’Abasa, or He Frowned
- Takwīr, or the Folding Up
- Infiṭār, or The Cleaving Asunder
- Taṭfīt, or Dealing in Fraud
- Inshiqāq, or The Rending Asunder
- Burūj, or the Zodiacal Signs
- Ṭāriq, or The Night-Visitant
- A‘la, or The Most High
- Gāshiya, or the Overwhelming Event
- Fajr, or Dawn
- Balad, or the City
- Shams, or The Sun
- Lail, or The Night
- Dhuḥā, or The Glorious Morning Light
- Inshirāḥ, or the Expansion
- Tīn, or the Fig
- Iqraa, or Read!, or Proclaim!
- Qadr, or The Night of Power (or Honor)
- Baiyina, or The Clear Evidence
- Zilzāl, or The Convulsion
- ’Ādiyāt, or Those Who Run
- Al-Qāri’a, or The Day of Noise and Clamor
- Takathur, or Piling Up
- ‘Aṣr, or Time through the Ages
Appendix 14: Oaths and Adjurations in the Qur’ān - Humaza, or the Scandal-monger
- Fīl, or The Elephant
- Quraish, or The Quraish, (Custodians of the Ka’ba)
- Mā’ūn, or Neighborly Needs
- Kauthar, or Abundance
- Kāfirūn, or Those who reject Faith
- Naṣr, or Help
- Lahab, or The Flame
- Ikhlāṣ, or Purity (of Faith)
- Falaq, or The Dawn
- Nās, or Mankind
