The Critical Qur’an will be out May 3. Order it in hardcover or on Kindle.
Comments
mortimersays
Whenever the Koran has been translated by Muslims, most of the Muslim translators use the lens of the Standard Islamic Narrative (SIN) and the lens of standard Islamic theology…. usually from the Sunnite perspective. They manipulate the text to say what the mullahs claim it says, rather than translating the text literally.
A literal translation of the Koran, however, would be almost totally incomprehensible, because much (20%) of the original Arabic text of the Koran is OPAQUE and IMPENETRABLE.
An opaque, impenetrable text CANNOT BE TRANSLATED because it is incomprehensible in the original.
mortimersays
Robert Spencer has tried to fix the main problem with Koranic translations, namely, that most translations are ‘dishonest’ … they don’t give you what the original text is actually telling us.
An example is the phrase ‘ma bayna yadayhi’ (‘that which is between his hands’). A number of Muslim translators dishonestly translate the phrase as simply ‘AFTER’ … that is intentionally deceptive. The phrase referes to the Bible that is ‘between’ the hands of the generation of Mohammed. This phrase DESTROYS the credibility of the Koran by producing an unsolvable dilemma, namely, that the Koran is thereby shown to be false. Translators have dishonestly translated the phrase because they know that it destroys Islam when translated honestly.
Kephsays
Thank you for something very interesting. Could you go more in depth on this one? When I read the Qur’an, I am at the mercy of translations–namely Dawood’s and Yusuf Ali’s.
Walter Sieruksays
For a more full understanding of the actual nature of the Qu ‘ran a person, need to look back in time before the coming of Muhammad and then the Qu ‘ran. Back to the First Century AD which was the time of early Christian church. For the Early Christian Church had and now in modern times, the Christian church still has the Gospel of Christ, First Corinthians 15:1-4.
Much later, in time, came Muhammad and he gave much information, that many believe to be divine, some of which is said to have been obtained from an angle from heaven. This information was written down on different objects and things Those written words in different objects was then compiled together and then eventually went into the composition of what is now called the Qu ‘ran.
The Qu ‘ran is actually, that is in reality, another gospel, apart and greatly different from the Gospel of the Christian Church. Such a thing was predicted in the Bible. For the Bible does warn about those who will come and offer to people another gospel other than the one shown above, First Corinthians 15:1-4. For it is warned about any other “gospel” in the Bible. For it is written in the Bible “Though we or an angle from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so I say now again, if any man preaches any other gospel unto you than ye have received, let him be accursed.” Galatians 1:8, 9. [K.J.V.]
Therefore, the Koran is the result of the deception of a false prophet, Mathew 7:15., who may have come in contact with a fallen angle, a demon, So the imams and mullahs who preach it a truth to other are accused of and by God.
Discover more from
Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.
mortimer says
Whenever the Koran has been translated by Muslims, most of the Muslim translators use the lens of the Standard Islamic Narrative (SIN) and the lens of standard Islamic theology…. usually from the Sunnite perspective. They manipulate the text to say what the mullahs claim it says, rather than translating the text literally.
A literal translation of the Koran, however, would be almost totally incomprehensible, because much (20%) of the original Arabic text of the Koran is OPAQUE and IMPENETRABLE.
An opaque, impenetrable text CANNOT BE TRANSLATED because it is incomprehensible in the original.
mortimer says
Robert Spencer has tried to fix the main problem with Koranic translations, namely, that most translations are ‘dishonest’ … they don’t give you what the original text is actually telling us.
An example is the phrase ‘ma bayna yadayhi’ (‘that which is between his hands’). A number of Muslim translators dishonestly translate the phrase as simply ‘AFTER’ … that is intentionally deceptive. The phrase referes to the Bible that is ‘between’ the hands of the generation of Mohammed. This phrase DESTROYS the credibility of the Koran by producing an unsolvable dilemma, namely, that the Koran is thereby shown to be false. Translators have dishonestly translated the phrase because they know that it destroys Islam when translated honestly.
Keph says
Thank you for something very interesting. Could you go more in depth on this one? When I read the Qur’an, I am at the mercy of translations–namely Dawood’s and Yusuf Ali’s.
Walter Sieruk says
For a more full understanding of the actual nature of the Qu ‘ran a person, need to look back in time before the coming of Muhammad and then the Qu ‘ran. Back to the First Century AD which was the time of early Christian church. For the Early Christian Church had and now in modern times, the Christian church still has the Gospel of Christ, First Corinthians 15:1-4.
Much later, in time, came Muhammad and he gave much information, that many believe to be divine, some of which is said to have been obtained from an angle from heaven. This information was written down on different objects and things Those written words in different objects was then compiled together and then eventually went into the composition of what is now called the Qu ‘ran.
The Qu ‘ran is actually, that is in reality, another gospel, apart and greatly different from the Gospel of the Christian Church. Such a thing was predicted in the Bible. For the Bible does warn about those who will come and offer to people another gospel other than the one shown above, First Corinthians 15:1-4. For it is warned about any other “gospel” in the Bible. For it is written in the Bible “Though we or an angle from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so I say now again, if any man preaches any other gospel unto you than ye have received, let him be accursed.” Galatians 1:8, 9. [K.J.V.]
Therefore, the Koran is the result of the deception of a false prophet, Mathew 7:15., who may have come in contact with a fallen angle, a demon, So the imams and mullahs who preach it a truth to other are accused of and by God.