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THE WISE
QUR'AN
The eternal book of
Guidance rendered
into plain
English by
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher
Why another attempt at translating the Qur'an? The
Qur'an is a book of guidance which can only be followed if properly
understood. Language continually develops, and the language of
yesterday can prove a barrier to understanding for the reader of
today. Most translators have in the past tried to enhance the esteem
of the Qur'an by choosing a distinguished, learned and complicated
language. The result has been that the message was lost on the
ordinary reader. Furthermore, translators have been at pain to
achieve the greatest possible accuracy. This being a worth-while
objective, even more so when dealing with Allah's word, it very
often destroyed the clarity of expression as a result. It is my
belief that those who would like to explore the fine details of the
Qur'anic text, best do so by learning Arabic, as it is entirely
impossible to consistently mirror in another language the full
richness and detail of the original. My attempt at translating the
Qur'an is therefore not a scholarly exercise, but an effort to make
these words of guidance and wisdom reach as large an audience as
possible and enable them to act upon it by absorbing the meaning of
the divine address and the images it contains in a language they can
relate to as their own.
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