The Koran – Translated and annotated by Abdallah Penot – New Editions 2019 – Review and correction by the author

The Koran - Translated and annotated by Abdallah Penot - New Editions 2019 - Review and correction by the author

...God is the light of heaven and earth; Its light is comparable to a niche where there is a lamp. The lamp is included in a glass similar to a sparkling star, fed by a blessed tree: the olive tree which is neither from the East nor from the West and whose oil illuminates, or nearly so, even without being touched by fire! Light on light! God leads whom He wills to His light...

Abdallah Penot: Dominique Abd Allāh Penot was born in 1954 in France. Very interested in Eastern traditions in general and Hinduism in particular, after reading René Guénon, he left for India but stopped in Damascus where he would live. There, he converted to Islam and studied for seven years with Shaykh Abū an-Nūr who introduced him to Sufism and taught him religious sciences (fiqh, tajwîd, tawhîd, etc). In the early 1980s, he became one of the representatives of the Shādhiliyya brotherhood in France.