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Reading the Quran is just as important as reciting it, but many Saracen, including Ibn Serendib are incapable of this because we do not understand Arabic. Despite many religious and social leaders, including our national hero, the late M.C. Siddhi Lebbe strongly recommending learning the language of the Quran, Arabic literacy is extremely poor amongst our blessed community, and therefore referring a translation of the Quran often, will help us better understand our religion.

Quran.com is an amazing resource that provides an online version of the holy book, in addition to its translation in many languages, including English, French, Turkic and Indonesian. The English translations are especially rich as they offer works by many translators so you can choose one that you have faith in.

This website displays beautifully on your smartphone. The homepage consists a listing of all 114 chapters of the Quran, and touch selecting the chapters title will load the relevant chapter in Arabic along with the default translation provided by Sahih International. There are better translations than that from Sahih International available, and you can view them by following the instructions in the video below.


The audio recital feature that you can access by using the play button, next to each sentence is also helpful for those that want to listen. You can also follow along as the text is highlighted in sync with the audio, a helpful feature for those that wish to brush up on their pronunciation. The audio recordings can also be changed to one of many reciters, using the same way you used to change the translator. There is a handy search feature on the homepage as well that you can use to pull out relevant ayahs based on the keywords you type in. At the time of writing this article, this feature does not work on mobile phones, but works excellently on the desktop browser.

Technology has bought us closer to our religion by making it easy and convenient to access religious texts. How envious our fore fathers will be of such conveniences, as acquiring a translation in those days was an investment, and even then, you may only purchase a single authors work. Here, every major translator is accessible, easily and directly at no charge. Therefore, Ibn Serendib invites you to give this website a try, and read the translation of the Quran in a language you understand, and he can guarantee you that it’s a very interesting read.

May Allah make our dheen easy for us!