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imported_Seventh_Angel · (#27 (**permalink**))

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful...the Best Knower.

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a Why does the quran have to be in arabic.This impliess that everyone should learn arabic and the quran should be in arabic alone.That's a form of ignorance.I thought muslims wanted to spread the gospel.But No!

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Lexi, this reasoning is flawed. If it is the Bible that you subscribe to, what Language is it in? English, no doubt. Which one of God's Prophets spoke ENGLISH? NOT ONE. The Words that were revealed to the Prophets were revealed to them IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE. So then, the OLD Testament revelations, most scholars agree, were revealed in HEBREW, which is a Sister-Language of ARABIC. The New Testament was originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic, BUT, the TRANSLATORS would have you believe the original text was GREEK...which is not true. Jesus did not speak GREEK nor ENGLISH.

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Now, it is a matter of LINGUISTIC FACT that when you translate from a superior language to an inferior language, or even an equally expressive Language,invariably, some of the original meaning of what is being translated will be "lost" in the translation.

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So what we have, let's say, in the New Testament, where the words are attributed to Jesus, we must remember that Jesus NEVER SPOKE ENGLISH. So, to fully understand what Jesus was saying, we would have to LEARN the Language that JESUS spoke - which, again, was NOT Greek - and then study his words from his own language.

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Now, Since most of us are either unable or unwilling to take up such a study, then we have to rely on TRANSLATIONS. And as with any translated text, the more translations we can draw from, the broader and clearer our understanding will be of what is actually being said in the text.

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My point here is that your criticism is BASELESS, since to properly understand the BIBLE, you, too, would have to LEARN the Language that it was ORIGINALLY revealed in.

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The Holy Qur'an was revealed in ARABIC because it was revealed to a Man and a People who SPOKE Arabic. Simple.

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I think your hindering you own religion and you dont even know it.There are alot of muslims who quote things on this site but not in arabic because they understand there is a language barrier that needs to be broken down. obviously allah (if all knowing) knew that people were going to have diverse languages.

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...Which is why the Qur'an IS Translated into SEVERAL languages...so that ALL may have an opportunity to benefite from Allah's Guidance. No matter what language you or I speak, we STILL must STUDY to gain proper understanding. Heck...there are people who speak ARABIC who do not fully understand the Qur'an...lol.

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If allahs words are really effective he will make it effective in every language because apparently he is all powereful so shouldn't he have the power to do that on his own?

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HUH???

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If a muslim translator translates the koran it may not be agood thingneither because the will be biased about the various words they use.It may be out of context and highly exaggerated.

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History shows us that the so-called "Christian" scholar or "western" scholar has the greatest tendency to misrepresent Islam...to have a negative bias. So there translations cannot be trusted. Muslims have no incentive to corrupt the text, since they were appointed as Guardians and threatened with punishment if they violated it.