For Sohail and examples of the poor translation of the Qur'an by Yusuf 3Ali and the Qur'an really says that jesus was indeed God

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Oct 25, 2006 at 18:16

My dear Sohail we kuffar study Islam and the Qur'an in their primary language and that is Arabic. You? you have no clue about what you are reading and if it is a good translation or not and you still have the audacity to push the religion of the Arabc that brutalized your ancestors. Shame.

Now to the fraudulent translation of aya Q5:116 by Yusuf 3Ali:

He translates it as: "blah....blah...blah then "didst thou say (sic) unto men (sic) worship me and my mother as Gods (sic) in derogation (sic) of Allah."

4 Mistakes in one simple sentence and here are the mistakes in the translation:

1. The worde "inta qulta" would mean:_ you said_ and not the funny "didst thou say" (and it is not grammatical aspect because one can very much say in good classical Arabic in presnt tense: inta taquul but this is not what the Qur'an is saying here).

2. The word lelnnas means: _the people_ and not men as he claims. If the Qur'an was saying lelrijala his translation would be correct.

3. As for his little "derogation" this is horrible translation of the: "men duun Allah" which can be translated as: besides Allah. But again his translation is poor because it is tendentious and not accurate.

4. Last: and this is the most significant mistake in the tranaltion and that is the word Ilahayin: th is word is the dual case for Ilah or God. If the word would have been Aliha or Gods his translation would have been correct.

If you cannot even get the tranlation correct why should I or anyone else believe that you know what you are talking about?

So much for Muslim education.

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