OupaPiet
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I was absent from this forum for a long time, mainly because of complaints that I could have spoken in a softer tone about the prophet of Islam.
No Problem, I said to myself.
However, I became engaged in perhaps the best intellectual endeavor of my life.
This is what happened.
I needed to understand the Quran, as I understand the Bible, which is composed in a logical Chronological sequence. What I mean by that is that, the Bible starts off with the Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Moses and so on until the life of Jesus, the early Church and ends off with Revelation...the end.
The Quran, on the other hand, has no logical line of thought, no Chronological sequence, and it repeats everything over and over again to the point that you loose total attention, and finds oneself lost on any coherent memory of what it says.
I decided to compose a topical composition of the Quran, mimicking the composition of the Bible. I soon found that this is a waste of time. The reason is that the English Translations were very linear, and for some reason the Muslim translators love to use Shakespeare archaic English. I found it difficult to comprehend what they were saying.
One day I had difficulty with a certain verse / aya, and I discovered the website, Islamawakened. I think they have about 50 or so different translations of the Quran into English. This opened my eyes! Not a single one was the same as the next, and some had many interjections to force their opinion into certain verses.
However, for the first time i was able to sieve through verses that were obscure, and I could eventually find one or so that clarified what was implied in the questioned verses.
However, this still made it a cumbersome journey (Searching through multiple translations to understand the meaning of a verse)
I also experienced that many Muslim translators so-to-say "Whitewashed" certain verses in the Quran, perhaps because it might be an embarrassment if showed to the Western reader.
Well, this was it. 3 Years ago I downloaded the Quran in Arabic, formulated it on Excel, and translated the 75 400 plus Arabic words, word by word, with the use of online Arabic dictionaries. I then used VBA code to drag the English from the spreadsheet, and placed it on a Word document. I then worked through the linear English, and arranged the English to be readable, without changing the meaning.
I then went back to my original project, to categorize all the verses into its chronological sequence. From Creation, Adam, through all the Old Testament prophets up to Jesus, and ending with Allah's Last Day. I finished this huge work last week.
Well, what did I learn?
You will see in this thread, and I hope what I show you all might be to value in your life.
No Problem, I said to myself.
However, I became engaged in perhaps the best intellectual endeavor of my life.
This is what happened.
I needed to understand the Quran, as I understand the Bible, which is composed in a logical Chronological sequence. What I mean by that is that, the Bible starts off with the Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Moses and so on until the life of Jesus, the early Church and ends off with Revelation...the end.
The Quran, on the other hand, has no logical line of thought, no Chronological sequence, and it repeats everything over and over again to the point that you loose total attention, and finds oneself lost on any coherent memory of what it says.
I decided to compose a topical composition of the Quran, mimicking the composition of the Bible. I soon found that this is a waste of time. The reason is that the English Translations were very linear, and for some reason the Muslim translators love to use Shakespeare archaic English. I found it difficult to comprehend what they were saying.
One day I had difficulty with a certain verse / aya, and I discovered the website, Islamawakened. I think they have about 50 or so different translations of the Quran into English. This opened my eyes! Not a single one was the same as the next, and some had many interjections to force their opinion into certain verses.
However, for the first time i was able to sieve through verses that were obscure, and I could eventually find one or so that clarified what was implied in the questioned verses.
However, this still made it a cumbersome journey (Searching through multiple translations to understand the meaning of a verse)
I also experienced that many Muslim translators so-to-say "Whitewashed" certain verses in the Quran, perhaps because it might be an embarrassment if showed to the Western reader.
Well, this was it. 3 Years ago I downloaded the Quran in Arabic, formulated it on Excel, and translated the 75 400 plus Arabic words, word by word, with the use of online Arabic dictionaries. I then used VBA code to drag the English from the spreadsheet, and placed it on a Word document. I then worked through the linear English, and arranged the English to be readable, without changing the meaning.
I then went back to my original project, to categorize all the verses into its chronological sequence. From Creation, Adam, through all the Old Testament prophets up to Jesus, and ending with Allah's Last Day. I finished this huge work last week.
Well, what did I learn?
You will see in this thread, and I hope what I show you all might be to value in your life.
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