“Sirāt al-Jinān fī Tafsīr al-Quran": An Overview

Abstract

Tafsīr is one of the prominent branches of Qur’ānic science. There is a long list of commentaries of the Quran in different languages. Many commentaries have been written in Urdu and are still being written. This article studies a new Urdu Tafsīr of the Holy Quran written by a Pakistani scholar Muhammad Qāsim Qādarī. It highlights it methodology and distinctive features. It finds Sirāt al-Jinān a nice and worth studying Tafsīr. The commentator has aptly depicted social evils and gives the pathway to new generation for addressing their problems in the light of Holy Quran.