Quran Translation Feedback and Comments - Translating the Quran
- Sat 26 May, 2007 3:10 pm Post subject: Translating the Quran
Hello all
I want to inform you with the plan I came up with to tackle this tough project, I'm still in the process of getting the feel of it, how ever after doing the first 20 verses of sura 2 I believe I have to come up with some logic so the project does not get out of hand
Plan:
1) I will work at 20 verses at a time and in the order of the Quran
2) I will post the translation along with the Arabic text in a new thread titled DRAFT, for each of those 20 verses
3) There will be a time limit on the feedback regarding my first impression of the translation, I say a max of a 3 days, if no feedback is posted I will have another go at the translation, do whatever changes that I believe should be done then confirmed it (change the title from DRAFT to "Confirmed"
4) When it is confirmed I will do the flash movie for those twinty verses and add it to the thread
5) A confirmed thread should look lke this:
A) The draft that should be edited as feedback comes in (that is the main thread)
B) A few feedback may be under it until confimed
C) The Flash Movie
D) The thread will be open for the public to add whatever comments that relate to those 20 verses
E) We shuld also add anything that we know of that is related to those verses in details, like refuting a manipulation by the Aloners, or a scietific miracle, or refuting an alegation by Shabir, etc etc
If it goes this was, inshallah we should have a massive Quran liberary in about 5 years time
Here is my notes regarding the required forums:
1) we only need one forum for the trnalsation and eveything, the threads in there will only be for the groups of each twinty verses, I will select one of the ones that File created and consider it the one we need
2) we dont need a forum for the Arabic text because the Arabic text will be included in the translation
3) we dont need a forum for other translations, because this will add an unnesseccery load on my server and the db while all these translations are avaianle on line, we dont believe that any of them is accurate any way
So all we need is just one forum that will have everything centralised in it
Please let me know what do you think
I will post sura 1 (7 verses) in a draft thread as well the first 20 verses of sura 2 then I will start on the next 20m verses on sura 2