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A non-sectarian website dedicated to making the Qur'an accessible to the English-speaking public through the collection of multiple translations of the meaning of every verse of the Book. We also link, by verse, to related page(s) at Corpus.Quran.Com - an excellent tool for those ready to pursue the actual Arabic of the Revelation.

06/14/2026

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IslamAwakened has a new old translation!
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05/25/2026

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📖 Two new translations now live on IslamAwakenedToday we welcomed Zulfiquar Ali Bhotto and Verbatim Quran (Mahmoud K) — ...
05/25/2026

📖 Two new translations now live on IslamAwakened
Today we welcomed Zulfiquar Ali Bhotto and Verbatim Quran (Mahmoud K) — both published in 2026 — to our growing collection of 70+ English translations of the Qur'an.
To give fresh work like this a clear home, we've added a new "Newest Translations 2026" category. Look for the violet band on the ayah comparison pages and on the surah translation picker — the latest scholarship is now one click away.
Free to read, free to compare, side-by-side.
👉 https://www.islamawakened.com

One word. Many kinds of fire.There’s a word the Qur’an uses 60+ times that no major English translator handles consisten...
05/22/2026

One word. Many kinds of fire.
There’s a word the Qur’an uses 60+ times that no major English translator handles consistently. Fitnah (فِتْنَة) shows up in contexts as different as theological seduction, political persecution, civil strife, the testing of a faithful person, and the trial God imposes on a community. Translators don’t settle on a single English equivalent for it — and they don’t settle on one even within their own translation.

That isn’t because translators are sloppy. It’s because fitnah covers semantic ground that English breaks into separate words.

The Qur'an's clearest claim about itself — and four translators who can't agree what it actually means.54:17 says the Qu...
05/19/2026

The Qur'an's clearest claim about itself — and four translators who can't agree what it actually means.

54:17 says the Qur'an is easy. Every translator agrees. But "easy for what?" splits them four ways: easy to take to heart (Asad), easy to understand and heed (Yusuf Ali), easy to memorize (Pickthall), easy as devotional remembrance (Sahih International).

The same Arabic root — dhikr / muddakir — gets pulled in four different directions. Each translator is making a theological claim about what the Qur'an is for: internalization, comprehension, recitation, devotion.

None is wrong. All four are inside the word.

That's the case for reading translations side by side — not to crown a winner, but to see the meaning open up.

See 54:17 across 70+ translations → islamawakened.com/quran/54/17/

05/03/2026

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03/29/2026

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