The Majestic Qur'an (Musharraf Hussain)

The Majestic Qur'an is an English rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by Musharraf Hussain, published by Invitation Publishing in Nottingham in 2018, one of the recent translations that put plain English first. ¹

Hussain is an al-Azhar graduate and a longstanding educationist in the UK; Sohaib Saeed notes that he belongs to the Barelwi strand of Sunni Muslims and states his adherence to orthodox commentators. ¹

The front matter carries an endorsement from Egypt's Dar al-Ifta and others; each sura has an introduction, the text has topical headings, footnotes are used sparingly, and the margins carry questions for reflection. ¹

After publication, criticisms, mostly on points of doctrine, were discussed at a meeting of Barelwi imams, whose statement said the work would be withdrawn pending corrections; the translator published an errata list and said the revised work was fully in line with the creed of al-Nasafi, the standard Sunni creed. ¹ Saeed judges some corrections improvements and others awkward, and sees the case as showing how translation and doctrine interact: an individual project, corrected at the prompting of a committee of British imams. ¹

• Sohaib Saeed, "Qur'an translation of the week #09", The Global Qur'an, 2020. ¹