Selections from the Quran

S.A. Ali, former Director, Institute of Islamic studies, Hamdard University, New Delhi, says: "To the ever-growing number of English-speaking readers looking for a volume which will tell them the essential message of the Qur'an in one sitting, I cannot commend a book as readily as the present one.

"To Muslims, the Qur'an is the literal and infallible word of Allah, conveyed in human language. O.P. Ghai has selected from each chapter of the Qur'an what seemed to him the essential message. The rendering is superb, eliminating all archaism and so ensuring the smooth flow of the selected passages."

About the Author:

O.P. Ghai (1919-1992) was for his communication skills. A publisher by profession and believer by faith in the fundamental unity underlying the great religious of the world, he sought religious co-existence through the written and the spoken word by editing a treatise, Unity in Diversity, which became a widely translated book in India and abroad.

A graduate of Punjab University, Lahore, who started his career as a school teacher, he founded University Publishers, Sterling Publishers and the Institute of Book Publishing and rose to become a member of the Executive Committee of the International Publishers Association, a rare honour.