Dear friends,
        
        I have acquired the Arabic text and the translations
(Pickthal, Y Ali) of Quran from the Islamic Computing Center, London.
The files are in plain ASCII mode, with Arabic in ASMO 701 (I think) 
[Note of 
Nicholas Heer: he means ASMO 708]. I have been able to convert them on 
Macintosh, so that the Arabic can be read along with the translation 
(under 
System 7.xx, with Arabic resources). Though if you have an Arabic System 
on a 
PC or other machine you can still read the Arabic. So if you would like 
to get 
a copy of the following please let me know, and also in what format you 
would 
like to get them (i.e. in hqx, binhex, uuencoded, tar, compressed, etc). 
 
        1)  Arabic text of Quran
        2)  Translation by A Yousuf Ali
        3)  Translation by M Pickthal
        4)  Combined text of Quran in Arabic with translations
            verse by verse.
 
 
These file were made freely available to me by the Islamic Computing
Centre, { 73 St. Thomas's Road, London N4 2QJ U.K. Tel:(071) 359 6233
; Fax:(071) 226 2024 } to be ported to the Macintosh operating system
and distribute free of charge. The files are not in Public domain, and
the copy rights of the files still remain with The Islamic Computing
Centre. It is not permitted to distribute the file for commercial (or
Profit) purposes. A commercial product for the PCs with searching
facilities is already available from the Islamic Computing Centre.
 
 
Mohammad Jamil Sawar
sawar@cbl.leeds.ac.uk
CBLU, Leeds University, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.