Faridinama

My previous post had a link to a text file with the complete translation of the Holy Quran. When @Asma thanked me for sharing the link I realized that I was getting the credit that someone else deserves. Here is a short story on how I created the Quran site, the information that may be useful to you, and the due credit.

While searching for Quranic resources on the Internet I found a text file (not available anymore) that contained the complete translation of the Holy Quran. The file had a lot of format inconsistencies that made it impossible to run it through a parsing engine. I reformatted the file through regular expression magic in vi editor and wrote a short script that parsed and imported the complete text into a database. You can download this formatted file (size: 1 MB) and use it, within the limits imposed by The Islamic Computing Centre, London (see the copyright notice below).

For those interested in linking to my site, the verses and chapters are arranged in a simple and consistent format.

The link http://faridi.net/quran/?chapter=1 will take you to the 1st chapter. Similarly the link http://faridi.net/quran/?chapter=17#51 will take to you the 17th chapter and 51st verse. Feel free to link to this site.

The audio is from IslamiCity.com. They probably have the largest collection of recitations and a lot of other information about Islam.

The subject index is from USC MSA website. A very early internet resource on Quran and Hadith.

There you go. The credit goes to Islamic Computing Center,  Islam101, IslamiCity, and USC MSA. I am merely the delivery guy.

Here is the copyright notice for the text:

 Distributed by

Mohammad Jamil Sawar
sawar@cbl.leeds.ac.uk
CBLU, Leeds University, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.

For:

THE ISLAMIC COMPUTING CENTRE,
73 St. Thomas’s Road, London N4 2QJ U.K.
Tel:(071) 359 6233  Fax:(071) 226 2024

(Please acknowledge the source “The Islamic Computing Centre, London” when quoting from this text)

This file was made freely available to M.J. Sawar by the Islamic Computing Centre to be ported to the Macintosh operating system and distribute free of charge. The file is not in Public domain, and the copy rights of the file still remain with The Islamic Computing Centre. It is not permitted to distribute the file for commercial purposes.  A commercial product for the PCs with searching facilities is already available from the Islamic Computing Centre. The Arabic text and other translations of the Quran by Pickthal are also freely available for all platforms. See the submissions of ASCII and other text files to the archives.