Towards Understanding the Quran Abridged version is a fresh English rendering of Tafhim al-Quran, Sayyid Mawdudis monumental and masterly Urdu translation of the Quran and a selection of his commentary. Here is a work with a difference, by a scholar of an entirely different sort. An immense wealth of profound understanding of the Quran is here, a vast treasure of knowledge and deep insight, and a valuable exposition of some social, political, economic and legal teachings of the Quran.