Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

The English Qur’an associated with Hasan al-Fatih Qaribullah circulates almost everywhere as the joint work of Qaribullah & Darwish, prepared with Ahmad Darwish. Its character is that of a plain, modern English rendering pitched for easy reading rather than scholarly density. The phrasing is direct and unadorned, leaning interpretive where a literal echo would obscure the sense, and it carries little of the bracketed apparatus, footnoting, or theological gloss that weighs down some other versions. Widely hosted on digital Qur’an platforms, it has reached a broad online readership precisely because of that accessibility.

Hasan al-Fatih Qaribullah was a Sudanese Sufi shaykh associated with the Qadiri and Sammaniyya traditions, a lineage that shapes the devotional, spiritually attuned tone many readers detect in the translation. Ahmad Darwish worked alongside him on the English text. Beyond their collaboration on this rendering, detailed biographical records for both men are thin in widely available sources.

Critical notice of the translation is limited; it is valued chiefly for its clarity and gentle register, while the main caution is the general one for any smooth, interpretive version — that readable choices can quietly resolve ambiguities the Arabic leaves open.