The foundation published the Muhammadi Mus’haf featuring a translation of the Quran's meanings into the Souss Amazigh language (spoken in Morocco’s Souss region), Tiznit24 website reported.

This initiative reflects the foundation’s commitment to diversifying Quranic publications and translating the meanings of the Quran into languages ​​widely spoken both within and outside Morocco, the report said.

The aim of this publication is to bring the meanings of the Divine Word closer to speakers of the “Tachelhit” Amazigh language—the most widely spoken Amazigh dialect.

The translation utilizes the Arabic script and fully incorporates diacritics (vowel markers) to facilitate reading and comprehension, adhering to the orthographic rules established by the Moroccan scholar Mohammed Mokhtar Soussi.

The scientific committee overseeing the translation emphasized the use of the standard dialect of the Souss region—a dialect familiar and fully intelligible to the general public in the areas where it is spoken—while avoiding unfamiliar and archaic vocabulary.

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Translating the meanings of the Quran, Prophetic Hadiths, and religious texts is an educational tradition that the Amazigh people have employed for centuries to simplify the concepts of the verses and facilitate the understanding and derivation of religious rulings.

In terms of physical specifications, this edition is produced in a large Jami'i format (35 x 25 cm) and features an ivory-white cover with a gold-embossed motif in the center. In addition to its supplementary sections, this work spans 1,278 pages. On the right-hand page, the Quranic text is written in the Maghrebi Mabsut script across fifteen lines, while the facing page is dedicated to its translation into the Amazigh language; both texts are enclosed within a rectangular frame.

Markers indicating text divisions and Surah separators are placed in the margins within decorative frames inspired by Amazigh culture.

Regarding the scholarly aspect of the translation, a distinguished committee of experts and thinkers from the Souss region undertook the task of rendering the meanings of the verses based on rigorous, objective, and scholarly criteria.

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