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Are there others who feel like this? A certain alienation from the Urdu translations of the Quran because of the way they are written?????

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Whenever I tried to study the Urdu translation of the Quran, it almost always felt like something was missing and the translation didn't feel like it captured the whole meaning of the Ayahs.

The first translation that I read in my teenages, I am forgetting the name of the translator but it was written in old Urdu. It didn't make sense to me at all.

In my twenties, I tried the translations by Molana Mowdudi, Mufti Taqi Usmani, and Dr Israr Ahmad. Out of these 3, I felt that Mufti Taqi Usmani's translation was the better one but still, I felt like something was missing.

Over the last couple of years, I tried English translations and I found on Reddit that the most recommended one is the Clear Quran by Mustafa Khattab. When I studied that one, not only it felt like a perfect fit for me, it also helped me pin point what I felt I was missing.

Mustafa Khattab's translation is written in such a manner what I'd call Salees English. It flows very smoothly from one Ayah to the next one, and is written in a way that the flow of the translation from one Ayah to the next within one topic is smooth. In other translations, to me, it always felt like the flow from one Ayah to the next is disruptive (I don't exactly know how else to put it). There were a couple of other observations too but I don't know the right words or examples at the moment to explain them here.

MY QUESTION IS THIS:

Do others feel something similar when reading Urdu translations of the Quran?

Posted Aug 13, 2026, 4:55 PM UTC

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