[Foundation-l] Quran in Sitenotice

Thu Jul 13 13:10:08 UTC 2006

Does the benefit Fred suggests outweight the possible problems, which
are huge to me. Loads of things could go wrong or be misunderstood,
and I wouldn't want people to be put off contributing to the Urdu
'pedia by this. Communication is a priority here.

On 13/07/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
> Regardless. It uses a couple of undisputable proper nouns in there:
> "Scripture" and "Book" which can, in the context, only refer to the
> Qur'an. It also uses the religious POV "righteousness".
>
> On 13/07/06, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Jul 13, 2006, at 6:53 AM, Heema Khan wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I can help in this regard. Can read Urdu. The verse is from
> > > Qur'an's chapter #2, Al-Baqara (The Cow), Verse #44. Translation
> > > from http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/002.qmt.html, three
> > > different sources it seems
> > >
> > >  002.044
> > >  YUSUFALI: Do ye enjoin right conduct on the people, and forget
> > > (To  practise it) yourselves, and yet ye study the Scripture? Will
> > > ye not understand?
> > >  PICKTHAL: Enjoin ye righteousness upon mankind while ye
> > > yourselves  forget (to practise it)? And ye are readers of the
> > > Scripture! Have ye then no sense?
> > >  SHAKIR: What! do you enjoin men to be good and neglect your own
> > > souls  while you read the Book; have you then no sense?
> > >
> > > --heema
> >
> > Good advice for administrators, arbitrators, and, indeed. anyone. I
> > think it is a good thing.
> >
> > Fred
> >
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