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THE TRUTH OF THE QURAN
Volume One: Al-Fatiha and the Opening of Al-Baqarah
By Syed Iftekhar-Ur-Rahman Founder & CEO, LearnersCare LLC / LearnersCare Inc.
A Note on Sources
The Quranic text and English translation used throughout this book are drawn from the ClearQuran edition (translation by Talal Itani, Arabic text from Tanzil.net). The historical and scholarly background I have relied on comes from Tafsir Al-Qur’an: A Complete English Translation of Classical Qur’anic Commentaries (Volume 1, covering 1:1–2:80), compiled from Tabari, Baghawi, Qurtubi, Baidawi, Ibn Kathir, Jalalayn, Suyuti, and Fath al-Qadir. Every reflection, every conclusion, and every attempt in this book to connect that scholarship to daily life is my own — the understanding of one believer, offered honestly to whoever reads it.
I am not a scholar. I want to say that plainly, before anything else, because I think it matters.
I am a man who read the Quran, and then sat with the tafsir of the scholars who came before me, and found myself changed by what I understood. This book is my attempt to put that understanding into words — not as a lecture, and not as an argument I am trying to win, but as something closer to a letter. A letter from one human being to another, about the message Allah sent down, and what I believe it asks of us.
