When the day of judgement is nigh, there are those who would say with vehemence that the Qur’an is not from God. However, the Bible does contain passages that portend to the advent of Islam.

The only woman in the Bible visited by an angel of the Lord to be told that she would be the mother of a great nation is not the mother of Israel but the mother of Ishmael, Hager. Thereafter Hager is the only woman in the Bible (Genesis 16:13) to afford God a name: El Roy, which means “God sees me” in Hebrew.

Moreover, Ishmael, whose mother city is Baca (Mecca), is the only Biblical nation with God (El) in the name at birth, akin to the name of an archangel, such as: Gabriel, Michael, Samael or Raphael.

My main compulsion for producing this work was the conviction that I could bring a somewhat greater clarity and fluidity to the prose of translators that had gone before, especially for readers whose mother tongue is English.

A text containing countless explanatory notes within brackets is a mark of a bad translation. Furthermore, for the purpose of conveying something of the gravitas of the original Arabic text, it is not a simple matter of translating the Qur’an into basic English. However, the primary reason I decided to maintain the archaic English grammar of earlier translations is because it differentiates between the singular and plural you, which is imperative for ascertaining when God addresses His messenger, Mohammed.

The Qur’an is not like the Gospels, which read as accounts of the life and sayings of Jesus compiled by various people. The Qur’an should be read as a direct, channelled dialogue from God to His messenger, and in that regard, it reads more like the Pentateuch.