When I first published this booklet in Kiswahili, East Africa’s lingua franca, there was a big demand by those who understand English better for its English translation. To this, I am afraid, I could not respond positively due to my many other commitments.

However, thanks to my brother (Abdilatif Abdalla), here it is! Despite his many engagements he, unlike me, found time to do what now is in your hands. I have gone through Abdilatif’s translation and found it to be a proper rendering of what I had written in Kiswahili.

It is my hope therefore that, as was the case with the Kiswahili edition, readers of this edition will be able to appreciate that Shias are not different from Sunnis in their belief that the Holy Qur’an in our hands today is the same as the one that was revealed to Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.w. fourteen centuries ago- no more, no less.

May Allah guide us to accept the Truth.

Abdilahi Nassir

Mombasa, Kenya
Rajab, 1423/ September, 2002