Hello My Friends,
I'm hoping you can lend me some thoughts and opinions on the Qur'an I have recently gotten for free via the 'Let the Qur'an Speak.com' which is a learning project set up by Shabir Ally here in Canada, and am not clear if this offer is valid outside of Canada.
I'm not looking to be 'told' what to think about it, but sometimes there are some unfavourable slants and leanings in some, so I've read, for this or that reason or instance.
The translation is by the above mentioned, TB Iriving/Al-Hajj Ta'lim Ali Abu Nasr and I'm curious how others feel about this translation, if it's 'accurate', more useful in language, etc etc....
In the introduction it doesn't speak against the Abudullah Yusef Ali or the N.J. Dawood exactly. ( As a side, those are THE two Qur'ans I own atm.
He says the first is 'too wordy' and the second 'useful, but paraphrased' and that this one is meant to be more accessible in language, format but recognizes that there is no 'best' translation, finally wishing his translation to be useful for at least a decade or so and God willing, an even better one will come along.
It's my hope to keep two of these translations and pass on the third to a friend or pass it along to someone in the Scriptural reasoning group I meet with.
So please could I have comments on the OP, but feel free to leave comments on the other two translations I mentioned as well.
Salaam,
SageTree
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Yusuf_Ali
I'm hoping you can lend me some thoughts and opinions on the Qur'an I have recently gotten for free via the 'Let the Qur'an Speak.com' which is a learning project set up by Shabir Ally here in Canada, and am not clear if this offer is valid outside of Canada.
I'm not looking to be 'told' what to think about it, but sometimes there are some unfavourable slants and leanings in some, so I've read, for this or that reason or instance.
The translation is by the above mentioned, TB Iriving/Al-Hajj Ta'lim Ali Abu Nasr and I'm curious how others feel about this translation, if it's 'accurate', more useful in language, etc etc....
In the introduction it doesn't speak against the Abudullah Yusef Ali or the N.J. Dawood exactly. ( As a side, those are THE two Qur'ans I own atm.
He says the first is 'too wordy' and the second 'useful, but paraphrased' and that this one is meant to be more accessible in language, format but recognizes that there is no 'best' translation, finally wishing his translation to be useful for at least a decade or so and God willing, an even better one will come along.
It's my hope to keep two of these translations and pass on the third to a friend or pass it along to someone in the Scriptural reasoning group I meet with.
So please could I have comments on the OP, but feel free to leave comments on the other two translations I mentioned as well.
Salaam,
SageTree
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Yusuf_Ali
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