of 1I|C 14r. Hugh Anson-Cartwright THE QURAN, TRANSLATED INTO THE URDU LANGUAGE BT Shaikh Abdul Qadir Ibn i Shah Wali Ullah, OF Delhi, A. D. 1790, WITH A PREFACE AND INTSODUCTION IN ENGLISH BY THE REV. T. P. HUGHES, C. M. S. PESHAWAR, — ' • BY THE REV. E. M. WHERRY. Printed and Published'* AT THE MISSIOIf PRESS, LODIANA. 1876. \All nghXs reserved,'\ / \ THE PREFACE. a The present work is a transliteration into Roman Urdu of ShaikhAbdul Qadir'sTJrdu TranslationoftheQuran,published for the use of Missionaries and others, engaged in evangelistic work amongst the Muhammadans ofIndia, Although there is no authorized translation of the Quran in any language, that by Abdul Qadir is held in high estimation by learned Muslims, and Nawab Sadiq Hasan ofBhopal in his book, cal—led the Iksir, bears the following testimony to its integrity. "It is in the popular idiom and is profitable for all classes ofpeople, indeed it is so well known, and so acceptable amongst Muslims asto need no recommendation, and the fact that it ha^'^i^^n'^Drintedover and over again by different print- ing jTresses is a proofthat its popularity is daily increasino-.''" A quotation from this translation will, therefore, be accepted -4WJ by Muhammadan doctors, as being a correct rendering of the original Arabic, and it is hoped that its 'publication will be ofsome service to the Christian Evangelist, as it will enable him toquotethe Quranin idiomatic Urdu from a translationof admitted authority amongst the Muhammadans themselves. Shaikh Abdul Qadir lived at Delhi, about eighty years agO', andwas ason of the celebratedMoulvie.Shah Wali Ulldh, wbp is the author ofvery numerous works on Muhammadan Law. Shah Wali LFllah translated the Quran into Persian, and it is Cl) The Iksfr, by Nawab Sadiq Hasan, Cawnpur A. II. ]290 A. D. 1873, page 106. PREFACE. iv said, that his son availed himself ofthe critic^^ scholarship of his fatherin producinghis Urdiiversion, whichfirst appeared in the year ofthe Hijra 1205 (A. D. 1790j. The Quran wasfirstprinted in Roman Urdu type atthe Allah- abad Mission Press A. D. 1844, andwas published withcontro- versial N"otesand Comments. The present workhas been trans- literated from a Persian Urdutranslation printed atthe Matbai MuhammadiBombay,A.D.1853,andinsteadofthecontroversial Kotes ofthe former edition, a broad marginhasbeenleft, upon which the^Christian controversialist can inscribe his own com- ments and references. The Index, has been specially compiledfor this edition bythe M Rev. E. Wherry, ofthe Lodiaua Mission; and the Introduc- tory Essay, bythe Rev. T. P. Hughes, is intended as aguideto an intelligent study ofthe Quran, according to the principles laid downin the exegetical treatises of Muhammadan scholars. It is perhaps not altogether unnecessary, that those who are not fully acquainted with the tenets of the Muslim religion should be informed, that the Quran does not containthewhole ofthe Muhammadancreed,butthatallMuhammadans,whether Shiab, Sunni, or Waliabi, receive the Hadisor sayingsoftheir Prophet side by side with the Quran itself.^ Eo^' example the daily prayer, which is regarded asadivineinstitution, is-found- ed upon the teaching of the traditions, the injunctionscontain- ed in the Quran on the subject being exceedingly meagre. Everything Muhammad said, or did, with regard to matters (1) The seven principal collections ofTraditions, (Ahadis,) receivf'^ by the Sunnis, are those by Imam Muhammad-bin-Ismail Bokhari, Imam Muslim, Abu Tsa Tirmizi, Abu Daud, Abu Abdul Ealiman Nasai, Abu Ab- dullah ibn-i-Majah and ImamMalik. Aselection, from the above tradition- ists, will be foundinthe Mishkat-ul-Musabih,awork which has beentrans- latedinto English, (New edition. W. H. Allen and Co. London). The tra- ditions acknowledged by the Shiahs are found in the five books entitled Kafi, Manlayazarah-ul-Faqih, Tahzib, Istibsar, and Nahaj-ul-Balaghat» The mostimportantofthese Shiah traditions are collected in a work called the Hayat-ul-Kulub, an English translation of which is published. (Phillips Sampson and Co. Boston. U. S. 1850.) Xi/v uAtVuyf.^ k*'