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Hey our dear "Robert": Yusuf Ali and "numerals"!

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Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Oct 29, 2018 at 16:16

Hey, our dear "Robert" how come Yusuf Ali used Roman numerals and not Arabic numerals? So Surat al-Nisa' become Sura IV instead of using the Arabic number ٤ ? Care to explain our dear "Robert"?

And the funny thing is lost tablighees from India and Pakistan believe that this is so great that Ali used Roman numerals!

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