sTs: Your claim proves that Islam is meant only the Arabs

Submitted by Plato (India), Jun 19, 2008 at 21:36

sTs, you write:

>>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.<<

sTs, this is another proof, if proof was needed, that Islam is a religion meant for Arabic speaking people.

If scholars of Islam and Arabic are incapable of translating the Koran accurately it means they are not able to understand the Arabic Koran. How then can any non-Arab ever be a true or good Muslim??

What kind of an opaque language is your Arabic? Even long-dead languages like the hieroglyphics of Egypt have been interpreted and translated (perhaps not perfectly) and you claim that Koranic Arabic can be understood properly only by native-born speakers. Has the meaning of Koranic words been inscribed into the genes of Arabs??

And how can the translations of native Arabic speakers be accurate? By your claim their understanding of a foreign language is equally likely to be faulty. sTs you have put yourself between a rock and a hard place.

After imposing Islam on non-Arabs through preaching and conquest you are now telling them that their understanding of Islam can never be perfect as only native Arabic speakers can understand what the Koran is really saying. So much for the claim that Islam is a universal religion meant for all people.

Regards

Plato

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