World's biggest Quran.
World's biggest Quran with 7ft-high pages is unveiled in Afghanistan
The completion of the world's largest Koran was hailed as a major achievement for the Afghanistan when it was officially unveiled in the nation's capital.
Measuring more than 7ft long and 10ft wide, the text's 218 pages are decorated in 30 different calligraphy designs and took almost five years to finish.
Its inauguration ceremony was held yesterday in front of key religious figures, clerics, scholars and government officials to coincide with the opening of Hakim Nasir Khusraw Balkhi Cultural Center and arts exhibition in Kabul.
Painstaking: The holy book has been inscribed with 30 different calligraphy designs for each of its parts. The work took nearly five years to complete
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The project was inspired and sponsored by His Excellency Alhaj Syed Mansoor Naderi, a well-known religious personality and leader of the Shia Ismailies in Afghanistan, it was reported on Khaama Press.
Calligrapher Mohammad Saber Yaqoti Hussaini Khedri and his students started the composition in September 2004, which involved at least two years of continuous work for the shafting and archiving.
All the 30 parts of Koran has been done in 30 different designs. It was finally completed in September 2009.
Important day: Key religious figures, clerics, scholars and government officials admire the text's 218 pages during the ceremony at the Hakim Nasir Khusraw Balkhi Cultural Center
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Speaking at yesterday's ceremony, Mansoor Naderi described the completion of the book as a major achievement for the Afghan nation and all Muslims around the world, according to Khaama Press.
Those behind the project were then handed Appreciation Letters by Afghan Senate House speaker Fazal Hadi Muslimyar.
The Koran is the central religious text of Islam and is a record of the exact words revealed by God through the Angel Gabriel to Muhammad.
Muslims believe it was periodically revealed to Muhammad over the 23 years before his death at the age of 62 in 632AD.
It is divided into 114 suras which are classified either as Meccan or Medinan depending upon their place and time of revelation.
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Naat by Hazrat molana Jami rh.a. (with translation)
Naat by Hazrat Molana Jami rh.a.
(with Urdu and English translation)
شاعر : عبدالرحمٰن جامی
زبان : فارسی
گل از رخ آمو ختہ نازک بدنی را
زبان : فارسی
گل از رخ آمو ختہ نازک بدنی را
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گل ا ز رخت آمو ختہ نازک بدنی را بدنی را
بلبل ز تو آموختہ شیریں سخنی را سخنی را سخنی را
phoolon ne Nazok badani aap se sikee hai
Bulbul ne apni zoban ke Mitas aap se sekee hai
Flower has learnt tender-being from your face,
And nightingale has learnt from you the sweet words
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ہر کس کہ لب لعل ترا دیدہ بہ دل گفت
حقا کہ چہ خوش کندہ عقیق یمنی را یمنی را یمنی را
Jis ne bhi aap ke hontoon ko dekha ko dil mein kahan
Haq hai ki kisy ne Yaman ke Haqeeq(Ruby) ko laya hai
Whoever saw your red lips, praised them
Even the nicely carved carnelian of Yemen
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خیاط ازل دوختہ قامت زیبا
دو قد توایں جا مئہ سرو چمنی را چمنی را چمنی را
دو قد توایں جا مئہ سرو چمنی را چمنی را چمنی را
azal ke Darzi(God) ne kia sila hai aap ke khobsorat Chehre ko
aap ke Tan mein ye Sarwo Chamani(Khobsorat) kaproon ko
[Tailor of the eternity has sewed over your pretty stature
this green dress of garden over your body
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در عشق تو دندان شکست است بہ الفت
تو جامہ رسا نید ایس قرنی را قرنی را قرنی را
تو جامہ رسا نید ایس قرنی را قرنی را قرنی را
Aap ke Mohabbat aur Ulfat mein Mera danth Thodh gaya
Aap ke mohabbat mein mein apni aap ko Wais Qarani Samaj raha hoon
In your love teeth are broken, mere due to love
Make this news reach to Owais of Qarn
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ازجامی بے چارا رسانید سلامے
بر در گہہ دربار رسول مدنی را مدنی را مدنی را
بر در گہہ دربار رسول مدنی را مدنی را مدنی را
Jamay(Poet) ka Salam Ponchaye aap
Rasool Madani ke Gargah Par
From poor Jami, reaches salam
to the holy kingdom of prophet of Madina
to the holy kingdom of prophet of Madina
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