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About Pray for the Truth
Pray for the Truth is a place to read the Quran carefully. It is built for anyone who wants to see what the text says, compare how different translators render it, and look closely at the words themselves.
Reading the Quran
All 114 surahs are here to read in English, alongside the canonical Arabic and a transliteration you can turn on or off. Established English translations are available to compare, and switching between them changes only the translation you are reading — never the linguistic analysis underneath it.
Following words to their roots
Most Arabic words grow from a root of three or four consonants that carries a core idea. Open any verse's word-by-word analysis and each word shows the root it comes from, linked to that root's own entry.
The root dictionary covers all 1,642 roots attested in the Quran. Each entry gives the root idea, the forms the root actually takes in the Quran, the senses of each form with the classical lexical evidence behind them, selected examples, and the complete list of every place the root occurs.
Where the material comes from
The Arabic text, the English translations, the word-by-word data and the morphological analysis all come from established published sources. The root dictionary draws its lexical evidence principally from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon, Ibn Fāris's Maqāyīs al-Lugha, and al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī's Mufradāt Alfāẓ al-Qurʾān, and each sense records the source entries it rests on.
Where a source is incomplete or ambiguous, the site says so rather than filling the gap. Cautions and unresolved evidence are shown on the root entries that carry them.