Honor Killings in Babakot

Re: # 5
I am pleased to know that you go beyond plain reading that most of us are accustomed to, it certainly helps to indulge a layer deeper and "seek" to understand, and that certainly begins to make more sense as to how much on the real playing fields the scripture addresses the issues and concerns we come across in our life.
May the Almighty bless us with the opportunity to relate to what HE has blessed us with in the holy book which is not meant to be covered in preciously decorated covers and placed at heights we rarely reach out to clear cobwebs and dust.
I will most certainly refer to all the renditions that you mention as being posted in your ilogs inshaAllah.
May HE bless us with better understanding, ameen.

Re: # 2 MatloobZaman,
Thank you for your encouraging comments.
I share my renditions of Quran to share the sheer elation which I feel by doing that.
I keep doing the renditions as I read Quran - for me the best way to read Quran - as that way its living energy is transferred, which otherwise, in a passive reading may not as much transferred, at least in my case.
When I see a response like yours - it is doubly uplifting and it spurs me to do more. I am deeply indebted for that. In my iLog's I have posted some other renditions:

http://www.chowk.com/ilogs/68624/47644 - Al Qadr and Al Falaq
http://www.chowk.com/ilogs/68220/47644 - Al Asar
http://www.chowk.com/ilogs/67515/47644- Al Quariah
http://www.chowk.com/ilogs/68666/47644 - a poetic response on the two verse of Al Falaq

Your feedback is appreciated if you so incline to have a look. If you find any areas requiring improvement, I will be glad to hear.

I do not call this work as translations for a reason, as of course, you understand.

Mutaal Mooquin

Re: # 2 MatloobZaman,
Thank you for your encouraging comments.
I share my renditions of Quran to share the sheer elation which I feel by doing that.
I keep doing the renditions as I read Quran - for me the best way to read Quran - as that way its living energy is transferred, which otherwise, in a passive reading may not as much transferred, at least in my case.
When I see a response like yours - it is doubly uplifting and it spurs me to do more. I am deeply indebted for that. In my iLog's I have posted some other renditions:

Even in poetry it is so harsh. poor wretched girls.
In the nearest language, it always works.

Re: # 1
MashaAllah Quin
A nice rendition, may Allah SWT be pleased with you, ameen.

“When they hear the news of a daughter born
Their face turns dark, with grief they are torn
By the ill they see in the good news
With shame from people they hide and muse
Will they keep this shame or bury it in the dust
Both are evil choices and choose they must�

Qur'an 16: 58 -59 (lamenting and capturing the atrocious act of pre-Islamic Arabs when they used to bury their daughters at their birth - rendition by me)