Ali Quli Qarai graduated from Osmania University of Hyderabad with a B.E. in 1970, then moved to the U.S. and got his graduate degree in Business management (M.B.A.) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1997. He is a writer and translator and has served as the editor-in-chief of the English quarterly, Al-Tawhid, for 14 years and has translated many texts from Arabic and Persian to English. His major work is the phrase-by-phrase English translation of the Qur'an.

Allah (; Arabic: الله‎, romanized: Allāh, IPA: [ɑɫˈɫɑː(h)] (listen)) is the Arabic word for God in Abrahamic religions. In the English language, the word generally refers to God in Islam. The word is thought to be derived by contraction from al-ilāh, which means "the god", and is related to El and Elah, the Hebrew and Aramaic words for God.The word Allah has been used by Arabic people of different religions since pre-Islamic times.

Sheikh Hossein Ansarian (حسین انصاریان‎) was born on 9 November 1944 in Khvansar, Isfahan, Iran. He is an Iranian Shi'a scholar, author and lecturer on Islam and mysticism.