Translations Missing the Point

Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), Oct 27, 2011 at 19:24

There have been a number of assertions that comply with the lack of reputable English translations of the Quran. It has been debated here and elsewhere, and as you have noted, Muhammad Khan is the better source to many (but not all) for transliteration is generally better to get at the source material as opposed to that likes of Yousef Ali, of whom I have read does alright, but tends to be confusing due to the inexact thought process between Arabic and English. Further, many Arabic scholars who first language is Arabic emphatically insist the only way to get at the root of the Quran is to be able to read it in its original text.

But having said that, and also recognizing that adherents to the Quran must of a necessity

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