I have great news for you Islam is dying
there is a report in the Turkish media
from several days ago that a scholar and
a member of the Turkish Directorate of
Religious Affairs made a shocking
declaration that the Quran turns people
away from Islam and turns them toward a
theism and deism
Faruk Bashar who writes for the
newspaper known as Ganesha funk which
translates to new dawn wrote an article
that is titled does reading Quran
translations distance the youth from
religion in his article he reports that
he had a brief correspondence with
someone from Turkey's High Council of
Religious Affairs that is actually thing
that exists in Turkey which is a secular
country this member of the High Council
of religious affairs is professor dr.
Jaffa Rajesh according to the article he
said something that roughly translates
as serve the major arguments of atheists
and deists are rather based on Quran
translations than on philosophy Quran
translations can't deliver the whole
meaning in this regard a cooperation by
D on it the Directorate of Religious
Affairs and theologians would be very
appropriate and would reverse the wind
religion teachers request free Quran
translations and distribute them to
students when students read and
experience problems interpreting the
translation they get confused and can
turn toward these currents atheism and
theism I believe that this in my humble
opinion is our main problem so ok there
is a small correction here that needs to
be made to all these reports in the
Turkish media what this guy is actually
saying is not that the Quran itself
turns people away from Islam but rather
that Quran translations turn students or
young people away from Islam but that is
also on its own very problematic for
Islam this goes back to something that I
say so often that most Muslims have no
idea about the contents of the Quran and
the average Muslim knows this the
average Muslim doesn't read the Quran
and knows that other Muslims don't read
the Quran either and even if they read
the Quran they don't read it in a
language that they understand
in fact Muslims discourage each other
from reading the Quran in a language
other
an Arabic and even if you read it in
Arabic and you understand Arabic you're
supposed to go to a scholar or read
exegesis to further understand what the
Quran is actually trying to tell you the
number of people who have read the Quran
in their own language is extremely low
I'm proud to declare that I have read it
numerous times in my own language and it
is awful in fact it was the Quran itself
it started to turn me away from Islam
although it wasn't eventually just the
Quran it was much more than that he says
that young people turned toward a theism
and deism because they read the Quran
they get confused by the things that the
Quran translations say and then they
think well this is problematic that is
problematic I will turn toward a theism
and deism of course this is a huge
oversimplification of the issue people
don't just read the Quran and think oh
this is problematic I don't believe any
more no they read then they start to
question then they look for answers and
then they don't find satisfying answers
and then they leave reading the Quran is
only the beginning of all this but let's
assume he is right let's assume young
people just read the Quran in their own
language in Turkish they are
dissatisfied with it and then they turn
away I did come across Quran
translations from the Directorate of
Religious Affairs which is why what this
guy is referencing those translations
are in many ways quite accurate
translations of the Quran except those
translations actually add
interpretations to the Quran which
cannot be found in the original text for
example one of the most popular examples
is chapter 4 verse 34 the Quran
literally says men are in charge of
women by what Allah has given one over
the other and what they spend from their
wealth so righteous women are devoutly
obedient guarding in absence what Allah
would have them guard but those from
whom you fear arrogance advise them
forsake them in bed and finally strike
them but if they obey you
seek no means against them indeed Allah
is ever exalted and grant what the
modern translation of the Turkish
Directorate says is this men are the
protectors of women because Allah made
some people superior to others and
because men spent from their own wealth
women are obedient they protect what is
secret because Allah protects them those
women whom you see opposed by rejecting
the obligations of their marriage advise
them then leave them in their beds alone
if these don't help and you are forced
to then hit them lightly if they obey
then don't seek any means against them
indeed Allah is very great very big in
this example the translation quite
accurately represents what the Quran
says except that it adds several things
in brackets that are not there in the
Quran at all interpretations to the
Quranic text in order to make it sound
better than it actually is
so the translations of the Directorate
of Religious Affairs already does add
reinterpretations to the Quran to make
it look nice but other than that people
can easily understand what the Quran
says looking at other examples I see
that everyone who reads the translation
can read that slavery is ok within the
context of the Quran that you can have
sex with slave girls that you should
fight the infidel some protective
measures that the Quran translators in
Turkish employ are to change several
Quran verses that are obviously
scientifically wrong embarrassingly
wrong so these people actually do tweak
the Quran already and make it sound
different make it sound more modern more
reasonable in a way in Turkish if we
trust this scholar we are to think that
the Quran on its own translated in this
way and improved by the Turkish
authorities is insufficient to keep the
Muslim community together young people
will read the Quran and will not like it
and they will turn away toward a theism
and deism which is becoming a huge
problem in Turkey and in other Muslim
cultures which is why these people are
increasingly talking about these issues
what these people are saying is that the
Quran cannot keep up with the times
which is why they must work together to
save the Quran to help the Quran make
sense to the average young person today
which means Allah is a terrible
communicator it seems like the perfect
Allah didn't really think this through
what a shame
while I feel glad to see that so many
more Islamic scholars and educators
point out that reading the Quran in your
own language is detrimental to Islam to
your Islamic faith therefore I would as
always encourage you and everybody not
to take my word at all but to go and get
yourself a Quran translation in your own
language and just read it and see what
happens see what you think about the
Quran education is key and education is
destroying Islam which is fantastic and
it's not the translations it is the
Quran itself the religion itself you can
doin nothing against that that's all for
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