A new edition of the Noble Quran with Indo-Pak/Persian script Arabic and translation and tafseer in both English and Urdu.
How the Page Is Laid Out
The right column of each page has the Arabic text. The middle column carries the Urdu translation, and the left column the English. Beneath the three columns, the English tafsir is followed by the Urdu tafsir where it exists.
A brief subject index in both English and Urdu is included toward the back.
Who This Solves a Real Problem For
Households where the generations read different languages.
That situation is extremely common in South Asian families in the West: grandparents read Urdu comfortably and English with effort, children read English fluently and Urdu barely, and the parents sit between them. Buying two Qurans means the family never reads the same page.
One book with both translations means a grandfather and a grandchild can look at the same verse together, each reading the column that works for him. That is not a small thing.
The Script
Indo-Pak/Persian script — the letterforms the Urdu-reading side of the household learned, which makes the Arabic column usable for them rather than merely decorative.
Other 15-Line Editions in Persian / Indo-Pak Script
These share the same page layout as this edition — the most widely used layout, and the one most Indo-Pak readers learned from. Because the pages break in the same places, a reader can move between them without disturbing his memorization.
Fewer lines means larger text, but the pages break differently — so anyone who has begun memorizing should stay with the line count he learned from. Also available in 11 line, 13 line and 16 and 17 line.