Chapters 1 - 57
Surah Fatiḥa - the first surah of Qur‘an - can be found at the bottom of this document, transliterated from Arabic or rather Romanised. But before we get there, I presented you with a list of all the Qur‘anic Surahs denoting the number of verses in each.However, I have only listed Surahs 1-57 in this document followed by 58-114 the successive blog. I purposely divided the list of 114 Surahs to limit the length of the blog document, since I intend to present things in bite sized chunks.
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| Qur'an Suraat 1 -57 |
Surah Fatiḥa which is means - the Opening, consists of 7 verses , and has been colour code to simplify reading and understanding. Following the colour coded guide will soon give you the ability to read transliterated text that will sound very close to the actual Arabic as recited from the original Al-Qur‘anic script — In-sha Allah.
Chapter 01 - Surah Al-Fatiḥa 7 verses
Chapter 02 - Surah Al-Baqarah 286 verses
Chapter 03 - Surah ‘Aal-Imran 200 verses
Chapter 04 - Surah An-Nisaa 176 verses
Chapter 05 - Surah Al-Maidah 120 verses
Chapter 06 - Surah Al-An‘am 165 verses
Chapter 07 - Surah Al-A'raf 206 verses
Chapter 08 - Surah Al-Anfal 75 verses
Chapter 09 - Surah At-Tawba 129 verses
Chapter 10 - Surah Yunus 109 verses
Chapter 11 - Surah Hud 123 verses
Chapter 12 - Surah Yusuf 111 verses
Chapter 13 - Surah Ar-Ra'd 43 verses
Chapter 14 - Surah Ibrahim 52 verses
Chapter 15 - Surah Al-Hijr 99 verses
Chapter 16 - Surah An-Nahl 128 verses
Chapter 17 - Surah Al-Israa 111 verses
Chapter 18 - Surah Al-Kahf 110 verses
Chapter 19 - Surah Maryam 98 verses
Chapter 20 - Surah Ta-Ha 135 verses
Chapter 21 - Surah Al-Anbiyaa 112 verses
Chapter 22 - Surah Al-Hajj 78 verses
Chapter 23 - Surah Al-Muminun 118 verses
Chapter 24 - Surah An-Nur 64 verses
Chapter 25 - Surah Al-Furqan 77 verses
Chapter 26 - Surah Ash-Shu‘araa 227 verses
Chapter 27 - Surah An-Naml 93 verses
Chapter 28 - Surah Al-Qasas 88 verses
Chapter 29 - Surah Al-‘Ankabut 69 verses
Chapter 30 - Surah Ar-Rum 60 verses
Chapter 31 - Surah Luqman 34 verses
Chapter 32 - Surah As-Sajda 30 verses
Chapter 33 - Surah Al-Ahzab 73 verses
Chapter 34 - Surah Saba 54 verses
Chapter 35 - Surah Fatir 45 verses
Chapter 36 - Surah Ya-Sin 83 verses
Chapter 37 - Surah As-Saffat 182 verses
Chapter 38 - Surah Sad 88 verses
Chapter 39 - Surah Az-Zumar 75 verses
Chapter 40 - Surah Gafir 85 verses
Chapter 41 - Surah Fussilat 54 verses
Chapter 42 - Surah Ash-Shura 53 verses
Chapter 43 - Surah Az-Zukhruf 89 verses
Chapter 44 - Surah Ad-Dukhan 59 verses
Chapter 45 - Surah Al-Jathiya 37 verses
Chapter 46 - Surah Al-Ahqaf 35 verses
Chapter 47 - Surah Muhammad 38 verses
Chapter 48 - Surah Al-Fath 29 verses
Chapter 49 - Surah Al-Hujurat 18 verses
Chapter 50 - Surah Qaf 45 verses
Chapter 51 - Surah Az-Zariyat 60 verses
Chapter 52 - Surah At-Tur 49 verses
Chapter 53 - Surah An-Najm 62 verses
Chapter 54 - Surah Al-Qamar 55 verses
Chapter 55 - Surah Ar-Rahman 78 verses
Chapter 56 - Surah Al-Waqi‘a 96 verses
Chapter 57 - Surah Al-Hadid 29 verses
COLOUR CODING
The transliterated numbered text in Surat-ul Fatiḥa below contains light blue characters with a strikethrough line, to indicate that they should not be pronounced. The remaining black text is what should be read.
The darker blue bracketed text below, is an example of how it needs to be pronounced. An attempt should be made to elide the words, so that it forms continuous speech. Looking at line 1, -blue letters between brackets -, Bismil ends with an L and lahir stars with an L.
This places the tongue in the correct position to joint the two words together as one unit of speech. Likewise lahir ends with an R and rahmaanir starts with an R, once again placing the tongue in the right position join the two words together as one unit of speech.
Then again rahmaanir ends with an R and raheem starts with and R. If these four words in line 1 can be said as continuous speech, then it is said correctly and known as tajweed. The L's and R's are the consequence of Shadda, which will be explained in later blogs.
NB! The letter R is a trilling R, like in the words, warring, worry, rugby, marrow, orange and rough and never the R in words like far, car, careless and bear. You will also notice a number 3 in line 2, line 5 and line 7 in place of a letter. Please refer to the "legend" (blog 4) for its usage and clarification for the letter H in Rahmaan and Raheem.
In Line 4 and line 7 you will encounter two words in each ending with the letter D and the following word starting with a D. As previously explained, it placed the tongue in the correct position which theoretically makes Arabic easy to pronounce because the tongue twisting and vocal gymnastics have been simplified by its syntax that is relatively easy to master in a very short length of time.
SURAT-UL FATIHA (Surah 1)
1.Bismi
(Bismil lahir raghmaanir ragheem)
[001] In the Name of Allâh, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
2.Alhamdu lillahi rabbi
(Alhamdu lillahi rabbil 3a lameen)
[002] All the praises and thanks be to Allâh, the Lord of the 'Alamîn (mankind, jinns and all that exists).
3.A
(Ar raghmaanir ragheem)
[003] The Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
4.Maliki yawmi
(Maaliki yowmid deen)
[004] The Only Owner (and the Only Ruling Judge) of the Day of Recompense (i.e. the Day of Resurrection)
5.Iyyaka na‘budu wa-iyyaka nasta‘een
(Iyyaka na‘budu wa-iyyaka nasta‘een)
[005] You (Alone) we worship, and You (Alone) we ask for help (for each and everything).
6.Ihdina
(Ihdinas siratal mustaqeem)
[006] Guide us to the Straight Way
7.Sirata
(Siratal latheena an‘amta ‘alayhim ghayril maghdoobi ‘layhim walaad daal leen)
[007] The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger (such as the Jews), nor of those who went astray (such as the Christians).
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NB!: The combination letters gh are not two separate letters but sounded as one letter. See legend (blog 4)
