About this app

Holy Quran English Translation and Commentary
by Maulana Muhammad Ali

Publisher: Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat Islam Lahore USA.
P.O. Box 3370, Dublin Ohio 43016
http://www.muslim.org
E-mail: aaiil@aol.com

This Holy Quran App is being released for Android, iOS and Windows operating systems, and can be easily downloaded to smart phones, tablets and computers.
This Holy Quran App is based on the English Translation and Commentary of the Holy Quran by Maulana Muhammad Ali, and has several distinguishing features:

1. It includes both the English translation and footnotes;

2. The footnotes are present as hyperlinks, and displayed in pop-up form, making them accessible without further scrolling;

3. The audio recording of the English translation is also available for those desiring to listen rather than read, and is accessible in 30 parts and for sections within each chapter;

4. The navigation capability is excellent, permitting easy access to the following from any page:

a. Chapters (suras), Sections (rukus), Parts (paras);
b. Specific words found in the List of Arabic Vocabulary;
c. The expanded Index

5. It includes Word and Phrase search function for both the English text;

6. It includes Copy and Paste capability, with a built in “Annotation” feature to store and compile selected items.


Helpful Tips:

1. In the Mobile Version, swipe through the app to review the chapters, and scroll to read the text within the chapters.

2. In the Tablet Version, swipe through to read the entire app.

3. Text can be highlighted using a long-press, in five different colors, and the selected item(s) can be viewed in the “Bookmark” section (see ).

4. Copied text can be pasted in the “Annotation” box using a long-press, along with personal notes. These annotations can be can be compiled, stored and reviewed in the “Annotation” section (see ).

5. The audio can be commenced from the beginning of any of the 30 divided parts of the Holy Quran and can also be commenced from selected sections within each chapter of the Holy Quran.

To contribute towards the development of future Apps and support similar projects, please visit www.muslim.org/app.development.htm.

Reviews of Translation and Commentary by Maulana Muhammad Ali:

“There is no other translation or commentary of the Holy Quran in the English Language to compete with Maulvi Muhammad Ali’s Masterpiece”
- Al-Haj Hafiz Ghulam Sarwar (Translator of the Holy Quran)

“To deny the excellence of Maulvi Muhammad Ali’s translation, the influence for good it has exercised and its proselytizing utility would be to deny the existence of the light of the sun.”
- Maulana Abdul Majid Daryabadi (Leather of Orthodox Muslim Opinion in India).
“… has all the merits of what is desired in a translation”
- The Anjuman Himayat-e-Islam, Lahore, Pakistan

“…an austerely faithful translation in English … based on a close study of commentaries of the Quran - the work of my learned name - sake Maulvi Muhammad Ali of Lahore … The translation and the notes … all demonstrate the labour of love and devoted zeal”.
- Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar of “The Comrade”

“It is certainly a work of which any scholar might legitimately be proud”.
- The Quest, London

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New features

This Holy Quran App is being released for Android, iOS and Windows operating systems, and can be easily downloaded to smart phones, tablets and computers.

This Holy Quran App is based on the English Translation and Commentary of the Holy Quran by Maulana Muhammad Ali, and has several distinguishing features.

App Permissions

Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to modify the current configuration, such as locale.
Allows applications to change network connectivity state.
Modify the global animation scaling factor.