Write a 300-word comprehensive and integrated commentary on the next five surah below. Post your essay in this thread.
AL-KAFIROON (THE DISBELIEVERS, ATHEISTS)
Total Verses: 6
Revealed At: MAKKA
Maududi’s introduction
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
109.001
YUSUFALI: Say : O ye that reject Faith!
PICKTHAL: Say: O disbelievers!
SHAKIR: Say: O unbelievers!
109.002
YUSUFALI: I worship not that which ye worship,
PICKTHAL: I worship not that which ye worship;
SHAKIR: I do not serve that which you serve,
109.003
YUSUFALI: Nor will ye worship that which I worship.
PICKTHAL: Nor worship ye that which I worship.
SHAKIR: Nor do you serve Him Whom I serve:
109.004
YUSUFALI: And I will not worship that which ye have been wont to worship,
PICKTHAL: And I shall not worship that which ye worship.
SHAKIR: Nor am I going to serve that which you serve,
109.005
YUSUFALI: Nor will ye worship that which I worship.
PICKTHAL: Nor will ye worship that which I worship.
SHAKIR: Nor are you going to serve Him Whom I serve:
109.006
YUSUFALI: To you be your Way, and to me mine.
PICKTHAL: Unto you your religion, and unto me my religion.
SHAKIR: You shall have your religion and I shall have my religion.
AL-KAUTHER (ABUNDANCE, PLENTY)
Total Verses: 3
Revealed At: MAKKA
Maududi’s introduction
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
108.001
YUSUFALI: To thee have We granted the Fount (of Abundance).
PICKTHAL: Lo! We have given thee Abundance;
SHAKIR: Surely We have given you Kausar,
108.002
YUSUFALI: Therefore to thy Lord turn in Prayer and Sacrifice.
PICKTHAL: So pray unto thy Lord, and sacrifice.
SHAKIR: Therefore pray to your Lord and make a sacrifice.
108.003
YUSUFALI: For he who hateth thee, he will be cut off (from Future Hope).
PICKTHAL: Lo! it is thy insulter (and not thou) who is without posterity.
SHAKIR: Surely your enemy is the one who shall be without posterity,
AL-MAUN (SMALL KINDNESSES, ALMSGIVING,
HAVE YOU SEEN)
Total Verses: 7
Revealed At: MAKKA
Maududi’s introduction
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
107.001
YUSUFALI: Seest thou one who denies the Judgment (to come)?
PICKTHAL: Hast thou observed him who belieth religion?
SHAKIR: Have you considered him who calls the judgment a lie?
107.002
YUSUFALI: Then such is the (man) who repulses the orphan (with harshness),
PICKTHAL: That is he who repelleth the orphan,
SHAKIR: That is the one who treats the orphan with harshness,
107.003
YUSUFALI: And encourages not the feeding of the indigent.
PICKTHAL: And urgeth not the feeding of the needy.
SHAKIR: And does not urge (others) to feed the poor.
107.004
YUSUFALI: So woe to the worshippers
PICKTHAL: Ah, woe unto worshippers
SHAKIR: So woe to the praying ones,
107.005
YUSUFALI: Who are neglectful of their prayers,
PICKTHAL: Who are heedless of their prayer;
SHAKIR: Who are unmindful of their prayers,
107.006
YUSUFALI: Those who (want but) to be seen (of men),
PICKTHAL: Who would be seen (at worship)
SHAKIR: Who do (good) to be seen,
107.007
YUSUFALI: But refuse (to supply) (even) neighbourly needs.
PICKTHAL: Yet refuse small kindnesses!
SHAKIR: And withhold the necessaries of life.
QURAISH (WINTER, QURAYSH)
Total Verses: 4
Revealed At: MAKKA
Maududi’s introduction
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
106.001
YUSUFALI: For the covenants (of security and safeguard enjoyed) by the Quraish,
PICKTHAL: For the taming of Qureysh.
SHAKIR: For the protection of the Qureaish–
106.002
YUSUFALI: Their covenants (covering) journeys by winter and summer,-
PICKTHAL: For their taming (We cause) the caravans to set forth in winter and summer.
SHAKIR: Their protection during their trading caravans in the winter and the summer–
106.003
YUSUFALI: Let them adore the Lord of this House,
PICKTHAL: So let them worship the Lord of this House,
SHAKIR: So let them serve the Lord of this House
106.004
YUSUFALI: Who provides them with food against hunger, and with security against fear (of danger).
PICKTHAL: Who hath fed them against hunger and hath made them safe from fear.
SHAKIR: Who feeds them against hunger and gives them security against fear.
AL-FIL (THE ELEPHANT)
Total Verses: 5
Revealed At: MAKKA
Maududi’s introduction
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
105.001
YUSUFALI: Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the Companions of the Elephant?
PICKTHAL: Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant?
SHAKIR: Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the possessors of the elephant?
105.002
YUSUFALI: Did He not make their treacherous plan go astray?
PICKTHAL: Did He not bring their stratagem to naught,
SHAKIR: Did He not cause their war to end in confusion,
105.003
YUSUFALI: And He sent against them Flights of Birds,
PICKTHAL: And send against them swarms of flying creatures,
SHAKIR: And send down (to prey) upon them birds in flocks,
105.004
YUSUFALI: Striking them with stones of baked clay.
PICKTHAL: Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,
SHAKIR: Casting against them stones of baked clay,
105.005
YUSUFALI: Then did He make them like an empty field of stalks and straw, (of which the corn) has been eaten up.
PICKTHAL: And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)?
SHAKIR: So He rendered them like straw eaten up?
ISLAMIC SCRIPTURES: PROFESSOR A. RAHMAN 