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Tafhim-ul-Quran (Urdu: تفہيم القرآن‎, "Towards Understanding the Qur'an") is a 6-volume translation and explanation of the Qur'an by South Asian scholar Abul Ala Maududi. Maududi spent 30 years writing the work; he began in 1942 and completed it in 1972.

Tafhim is derived from the Arabic word fahm which means "understanding".


Maududi uses the standard technique of providing an explanation of the Qur'anic verses from the Sunnah of Muhammed, including the historical reasons behind the verses.



Maududi wrote his work in Urdu. It has since been translated to languages including English, Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam, and Pashto.

In 2006, the Islamic Foundation published an abridged one-volume English translation by Zafar Ishaq Ansari under the title Towards Understanding the Qur'an.

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