Wrong translations

Submitted by sTs (United Arab Emirates), Jun 19, 2008 at 01:41

Almost all translations are wrong, specially those translators whose Arabic is not native tongue.

You can rarely see an Arabic native person translate the Quran, they are almost all foreigners

I do see a lot of mistakes in many translations.

There is no where in the Quran any verse that says do not take the christians or the jews for friends

It says do not take them as advisors, consultants or as rulers to rule the muslims.

but there is no problem in making friends with others.

I believe there is an urgency for Arabic native scholared in Islam to take the initiative and translate the Quran in the proper way. not according to the translation of the British or Pakistani people

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