Ashura - Misrepresentations & Distortions.  This is a series of four sermons delivered by the author on the topic of the meaning and significance of 'Ashura and the martyrdom of Imam Husayn a.s at Karbala.

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Lectures on Ashura - new

Imam Khomeinis selection and exposition of forty ahadith that range over a broad area of Islamic philosophy, Islamic ideology, Islamic ethics, metaphysics and spirituality. In this compilation, Imam Khomeini has given the translation of the Arabic hadith and followed it up with exposition of integral aspects of the hadith that affect human life, belief or spirituality. The very first hadith is on Jihad of the self. The ahadith he has cited aim at self-improvement in terms of knowing Allah SWT, The Prophet SAWW and Aimmah AS, elevating oneself through self-control and self-discipline and shun pride (kibr), ostentation/show off (riya), self-conceit (ujb), envy (hasad), love of the world, anger (ghadhab), prejudice (asabiyyah) and hypocrisy (nifaq). In his collection , Imam Khomeini has included the ahadith that help us elevate our status through intellect (tafakkur), trust in God (tawakkul), mans natural instincts to seek out God, meeting with God and to fear (khawf) Him. Imam Khomeini has included ahadith that touch upon our sacred faith in Allah SWT, The Prophet SAWW and the Aimmah AS, the concepts of Attributes and Knowledge of God, The Meaning of Gods Creation of Adam in His image, difference between Good and Evil. The collection has also included ahadith on the merits of the seekers of knowledge, pursuit knowledge, prayers and concentration, and Classification of Sciences.

Forty Ahadiths an Exposition of Ethical and Mystical Traditions

Introduction
The Qur'an has been without doubt the most influential book in the history of mankind, in the same way as the great Prophet to whom it was revealed has been the most influential of men. Together they have heralded a new and ultimate era in the history of mankind. This influence is bound to increase with the development of man's awareness of the higher dimensions of human existence and with the removal of the obstacles that bar humanity from its Godward journey. Neither prose nor poetry, it surpasses all human composition with the celestial music of its rhythms,
the profundity of its meanings, its universality of appeal, its wonderful clarity, eloquence, sublime rhetoric, and above all its deep and passionate concern for the good of all human beings, which permeates all its chapters and verses. The beauty and sublimity of the Qur'anic discourse is something which has to be discovered directly by everyone to the extent of his capacity and effort, for the richness of the Qur'an is inexhaustible.
Unlike other masterpieces of world literature and scriptures, whose interest and appeal is limited to an audience with a particular literary taste or some religious creed, the Qur'an is the book of the ordinary human being, and meant for each and every human being. It addresses every human individual qua human being and creature of God.
Since the first century of Hijrah, continuous efforts have been made by Muslims to make the meanings of the Qur'an accessible to non-Arab communities. There have also been several unfortunate attempts to translate the Qur'an with a hostile intent or deviant purpose. In such cases, the great healer, the Qur'an, has only aggravated the sickness of those who approached it with a malicious motive, and this great spring of spiritual life has had the effect of the deadliest of poisons.
Despite the enormous amount of effort that has been made during the past centuries and notwithstanding the numerous translations that have appeared in many languages of the world and the new ones that continue to appear almost every year, an error free translation of the Qur'an in any language - including Persian and Urdu which have been closest to the Qur'anic culture-still remains an unfulfilled dream. Apart from matters pertaining to literary expertise in classical Arabic and the target language,
familiarity with the vast field of Qur'anic sciences and especially with the hermeneutic tradition of the past 14 centuries and the works of major exegetes is essential for the translator of the Qur'an.
The Qur'an is the book of life meant to last until the Day of Judgment. Its meanings and concerns are perennial and everlasting. Its roots are firm, and its branches are in heaven; it gives its produce every season by the leave of its Lord (14:25). It is an exhaustible source of meaning, meeting the needs of changing times, though its words and diction remain fixed and unchangeable. Thus the human effort to extract its meanings is an unending task of interpreting and understanding the Qur'an, an understanding that links the eternal to the temporal, the terrestrial to the celestial, the mundane to the transcendent, and the relative to the Absolute.
Hence in every era efforts have to be made to translate the Book in the language of the day and to interpret it in the light of accumulated human knowledge and Qur'anic scholarship. In view of this perpetual necessity, there is the need to develop a sound and systematic methodology for translating and interpreting the Qur'an in different languages of humankind, for to translate the Qur'an is to interpret it.
For the purposes of such a project it might be essential to undertake a study of the existing translations and to evaluate them from the viewpoint of literary strength, loyalty to the meanings of the original, propriety and precision of the words and expressions used in the translation, and, above all, the translator's degree of familiarity with the exegetical tradition and the corpus of hadith narrated from the Prophet (S) and the Imam's of the Prophetic Household (a).
They are the interpreters of the Qur'an par excellence, for it is they who are the first addressees of the Qur'an, and to them one must refer for settling questions relating to Qur'anic hermeneutics as well as for authoritative interpretation in cases of disagreement in interpreting Qur'anic verses al1d determining the Qur'anic viewpoint concerning various issues.
That which could be very useful in this regard is some kind of a manual that might offer almost a verse to verse guidance to the translator, especially if the translation is being done from existing translations and the relavant works are not accessible to the translator.
Source: alhassanain.com

The Qur'an and its Translators

This treatise (entitled Risaleh ye lubb ullubab dar sayr wa suluk e uli al albab) is based on the lectures on practical 'irfan of 'Allamah Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i, quddisa sirruh, the great contemporary exegete of the Qur'an and philosopher, delivered by him during the years 1949-1950. Its fourth impression (Tehran: Intisharat e Hikmat,1366 H. Sh. [1987] has been used for this translation. This work has also been published by the State University of New York press, titled as Kernel of the Kernel Concerning the Wayfaring and Spiritual Journey of the People of Intellect (Risala-yi Lubb alLubab dar Sayr wa Suluk-i Ulul Albab) A Shi'i Approach to Sufism, with Mohammad H. Faghfoory as the translator. The foreword has been given by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Lubb al-Lubab (The Kernels of Kernels) - A Short Treatise on Wayfaring

The main doctrines of kalam (theology) and their subsequent modifications with special reference to Mu'tazilah, Asha'irah and Shi'ah schools of kalam.

An Introduction to Ilm al-Kalam

A Historical Study of the writing and compilation of Hadith, This is second part of Tadwin al-Hadith. It deals with some of the issues related to the writing and documentation of Hadith and takes up extensively the issues in scholarly manners. It indeed is an enjoyable amount of reading for people interested to know about Hadith in the Islamic literature.

Tadwin al-Hadith Part 2

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With The Qur'an, Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an presents a new phrase-by-phrase translation of the Holy Qur'an. This title includes the original Arabic text alongside the English translation, as well as a note from the publisher and a preface by the translator, Ali Quli Qara'i...!

The Qur’an With a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation

Seyed Ali Qoli Qarai was born in 1947 in Hyderabad, India and graduated from Osmaniyeh University of Hyderabad and Wisconsin University of the United States. He has been living in Iran for many years and has been the editor of the English language magazine "Al-Tawhid". Many articles and translated works have been published by him.

He is an Indian-born translator and writer who served as the editor-in-chief of the English quarterly, Al-Tawhid, for 14 years.
His father, Syed Muhammad Quli Khan, was a lecturer at the College of Education, Osmania University. He was born in Hyderabad, where he went to school, first at Madraseh Aizza and later at Madraseh Aliya.
After graduating from Osmania University with a B.E. in 1970, He went to the U.S., where He got his graduate degree in Business management (M.B.A.) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
From 1983 to 1997he worked as Executive Editor and later on as Chief Editor of Al-Tawhid, an English quarterly of Islamic thought, in which job he had the opportunity to translate many Arabic and Persian writings on various Islamic subjects.
His major work to date is his phrase-by-phrase English translation of the Qur'an. For the past two decades, he has been associated with the Tarjuman-e Wahy Cultural Institute as a translation consultant.
List of Select Translations:
Mafatīḥ al-Jinan, a book of prayers and observances in 2 volumes based on the Imami tradition.
Bidayat al-Hikmah: The Elements of Islamic Metaphysics, by Allamah Tabataba'i.
Forty Hadith: An Exposition (Sharh-e Chehel Ḥadith) by Ayatollah Khomeini
Seyri dar Nahj al-Balaghah, by Ayatollah Motahhari.
The Kernel of the Kernel (Lubb al-Lubab) by Allamah Tehrani.
Risaleh-ye Sayr o Suluk (A treatise on spiritual wayfaring ascribed to Bahr al-Ulum)
Awsaf al-Ashraf, by Khawjah Nasiruddin Tusi.

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