My First Al-Qur'an (MyFA, Syaamil)

My First Al-Qur'an, known as MyFA, is an Indonesian children's Qur'an launched by the Syaamil Group of Bandung in 2010, one of about fifty Qur'an editions the group publishes. ¹

In Indonesia the Ministry of Religious Affairs' Lajnah Pentashihan Mushaf oversees published Qur'ans, and any translation distributed must be the official Ministry translation or be checked and authorised by it, so publishers tend to use the official one. ¹

It comes in two parts: the Arabic mushaf in two volumes, and the translation in two volumes, which reproduces the 2004 edition of the official translation verbatim, with the sira, stories of the prophets, a map of the Prophet's da'wa journeys, "Now I Know" notes on verses and figures, and an Arabic–Indonesian–English dictionary, printed on coloured paper with a durable cover. ¹ Yulia Riswan finds the formal official translation ill-suited to children and some additions unrelated to the verses beside them. ¹

The Syaamil Group, renamed the Sygma Group, grew rapidly between 2010 and 2012, with MyFA among its most successful products, sold with an e-pen; the group states that it prints only with halal-certified materials and that staff handling the mushaf are in a state of ritual purity. ¹

• Yulia Riswan, "Qur'an translation of the week #167", The Global Qur'an, 2023. ¹