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The objective is: To help you understand the Qur’an as you recite or listen to it. If you are a typical non-Arab Muslim, who can only read Quran (without understanding), then with our programs, you can understand it in 200 hours of teaching/learning, Insha Allah. Start with the Short Course (under the menu “Courses”) which has been offered to thousands of people in different cities and countries as well as online. Holy Quran is “the most widely read book in existence” according to Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition (under Koran). It is also the book memorized by hundreds of thousands throughout the Muslim world, even by kids as young as 11 years old.

The Quran has sparked a huge body of commentary and explication, known as tafsir. This commentary is aimed at explaining the "meanings of the Quranic verses, clarifying their import and finding out their significance." and best tafseer is done by Allah himself. Tafsir is one of the earliest academic activities of Muslims. According to the Qur’an, Muhammad was the first person who described the meanings of verses for early Muslims. Other early exegetes included a few Companions of Muhammad, like Ali ibn Abi Talib, Abdullah ibn Abbas, Abdullah ibn Umar and Ubayy ibn Kab. Exegesis in those days was confined to the explanation of literary aspects of the verse, the background of its revelation and, occasionally, interpretation of one verse with the help of the other. If the verse was about a historical event, then sometimes a few traditions (hadith) of Muhammad were narrated to make its meaning clear. Because the Qur’an is spoken in classical Arabic, many of the later converts to Islam (mostly non-Arabs) did not always understand the Quranic Arabic, they did not catch allusions that were clear to early Muslims fluent in Arabic and they were concerned with reconciling apparent conflict of themes in the koran. Commentators erudite in Arabic explained the allusions, and perhaps most importantly, explained which Qur’anic verses had been revealed early in Muhammad's prophetic career, as being appropriate to the very earliest Muslim community, and which had been revealed later, canceling out or "abrogating" (nāsikh) the earlier text (mansukh). Memories of the occasions of revelation (asbāb al-nuzūl), the circumstances under which Muhammad had spoken as he did, were also collected, as they were believed to explain some apparent obscurities