Swahili is spoken by well over a hundred million people across Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the wider East African coast — a region with a Muslim history stretching back more than a millennium.
The coastal Swahili civilization was Muslim from its beginnings, and Swahili itself carries a very large body of Arabic vocabulary as a result, which makes reading a facing-page edition considerably easier for a Swahili speaker than for most.
Arabic alongside the translation, with explanatory tafsir in footnotes.
About These Translations
A translation carries the meaning of the Quran rather than the Quran itself, which remains the Arabic. That is why these editions place the Arabic text alongside the translation rather than replacing it — a reader recites from the original and understands from the facing page.
For anyone whose first language is not English or Arabic, reading the Quran's meaning in the language they actually think in makes a considerable difference. It is also among the most effective things a family can give an elderly relative or a new Muslim from that language background.
Maelezo kwa Kiswahili
Qur-ani Tukufu pamoja na tarjuma ya Kiswahili, maandishi ya Kiarabu upande mmoja na tafsiri katika maelezo ya chini ya ukurasa.
Kiswahili kinazungumzwa na zaidi ya watu milioni mia moja katika Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo na pwani nzima ya Afrika Mashariki — eneo lenye historia ya Kiislamu ya zaidi ya miaka elfu moja.
Ustaarabu wa pwani ya Waswahili ulikuwa wa Kiislamu tangu mwanzo, na kwa sababu hiyo Kiswahili kina maneno mengi yenye asili ya Kiarabu. Hii humfanya msomaji wa Kiswahili apate urahisi zaidi katika kusoma toleo lenye kurasa za pamoja kuliko wasomaji wa lugha nyingine nyingi.
