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Ramadan kareem!
Oct. 15th, 2004 11:52 pmLast night the new moon was sighted in Mecca, and therefore Ramadan has begun in this part of the world. For the next month, daily life will change in observance of the holiest month of Islam.
Since I'm planning to read the Qur'an this month, I am hoping to post daily updates about my reading. In some parts of the Muslim world (though not, apparently, this one), the Qur'an is broken down into 30 juz of equal length, to facilitate its recitation during the month of Ramadan. I haven't yet found a complete list of the juz, but I have enough guidelines to get me through the next week!
So here is my first report. I plan to post the juz number, the surah(s) to which that corresponds, general themes I notice in the reading (I was going to call this a "summary" or "synopsis" but the Qur'an isn't really arranged by topic so that's hard), a notable verse or verses, and the surah(s) of the next day's juz, for those playing along at home. :-)
In the next few days I plan to buy an English interpretation of the Qur'an, which will be the Khan/Al-Hilali translation favored by Wahhabists, but for now I am using the Pickthall translation, a more middle-of-the-road Western interpretation.
( Click here for today's Ramadan Qur'an readings )
Since I'm planning to read the Qur'an this month, I am hoping to post daily updates about my reading. In some parts of the Muslim world (though not, apparently, this one), the Qur'an is broken down into 30 juz of equal length, to facilitate its recitation during the month of Ramadan. I haven't yet found a complete list of the juz, but I have enough guidelines to get me through the next week!
So here is my first report. I plan to post the juz number, the surah(s) to which that corresponds, general themes I notice in the reading (I was going to call this a "summary" or "synopsis" but the Qur'an isn't really arranged by topic so that's hard), a notable verse or verses, and the surah(s) of the next day's juz, for those playing along at home. :-)
In the next few days I plan to buy an English interpretation of the Qur'an, which will be the Khan/Al-Hilali translation favored by Wahhabists, but for now I am using the Pickthall translation, a more middle-of-the-road Western interpretation.
( Click here for today's Ramadan Qur'an readings )
