With Arabic being the primary language of Islam and of divine revelation, its translation becomes very important for the message of the Quran and Hadith to reach people from across the various cultures and societies of the world. Translation is the means by which the teachings of Islam have been passed on across the breadth of the contemporary Muslim world.

The date of the first Qur'anic translation goes back, according to a narration, to the age of the Prophet himself. Salman al-Farisi, a close companion of the Prophet is, according to some sources, credited with the earliest attempts to translate the Qur'an into Persian.”

“Zurqani states that: ‘it has been mentioned that the people of Fars wrote a letter to Salman, asking him to write the opening sura of the Qur'an (al-Fatiha) in Persian for them. He wrote (in Farsi) "In the name of God, the merciful" and showed it to the Prophet. Later on, the inhabitants of Fars read it in their prayer, until they became used to Arabic pronunciation.'”

According to this, Persian was the first language that the Qur’an was translated into therefore, portraying the significance of translation as well as the aforementioned hadith that prophesies the rise of the Persians in the pursuit of knowledge.

Persian is an important language in the influence it has had on spreading Islam as Arabic works were translated into Persian and then into various other languages. The Persian language is the key vehicle of Arabic works into Persian and Persian texts have also had a significant influence on the development of Ottoman literature.