The translation methods used by Muhsin Khan and Quraish Shihab in translating surah Adh-dhuha

The aim of this research is to know the translation methods used and meaning equivalence in Qur?an surah Adh-Dhuha from Arabic language into English and Indonesian languages. In this research, the writer uses qualitative as the method research because the collected data are analyzed qualitatively by comparing the translation results of the two translators, M. Khan and QuraishShihab. The writer reads verse by verse of surah Adh-Dhuha and then makes the table analysis to determine the translation method that used in translating surah Adh-Dhuha. Besides that, he analyzes the meaning equivalence of the source language and target languages. Finding of this study shows that the word for word translation method has much better understanding in translating surah Adh-Dhuha. Besides, the meaning equivalence shows that linguistic equivalent is much better to make reader understand of the translation. The result also shows that between translation methods and meaning equivalence is related to create the best translation