• red@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Isn’t the Quran supposed to be read only in Arabic? Or was that just the Torah and Hebrew?

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      1 year ago

      Translations are accepted, but they are seen as human interpretation (because by necessity any translation between languages requires interpretation, even more so for ancient texts). Only the Arabic version is seen as the literal word of god. That’s probably what you were thinking about.

      For further reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran_translations

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      1 year ago

      No, of course not. It can be read in any language as long as that is verified translation. The Qurʻan was originally written in the Arabic language and has been translated into most major African, Asian and European languages.