Aidid Safar's translation of Qur'an 1:2 Alhamdulillahi rabbil alamiin ,
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Aidid Safar's translation of Qur'an 12 " The praise is for God-Lord of the well informed " . ( Alhamdulillahi rabbil alamiin ).
Salamun alaykum
Just visited Aidid Safar.com and read the above translation of Qur'an 12 and I was a bit disturbed by it for some reason .
The first part of the translation , I have no problem with , but the second part ...." Lord of the well informed " ?
I know that the word alamiin comes from the root Ayn Lam Miim , with its best meanings incorporated into
the translation . However , if the above translation was to stand , it certainly puts a limit to The God's Lordship .
Surely Aidid Safar did not intend to limit The God with his "Lord of the well informed bit ? This is a clear connotation
and a direct contradiction to The God "Infinite" nature . Is Aidid safar saying that God / The Lord is only for a select group
of peple i.e. The Elite but not for others ? Perhaps, this is just an error in composition and sentence structure ?
My own take for the same verse is The praise is for God , the well informed Lord , or alternatively The praise is for God , The Omniscient Lord .
What do you think ?
Peace
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peace,
It's best to read a translation with a good set of verification tools, e.g. some of those found at www.studyquran.org
From my studies, it is very very common to find problems in all translations, some minor, some major.
Alternatively, one could do a forum word seach for "aalameena", e.g.
http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9596520.msg51053#msg51053 -
It is interesting to see the translation, as the use of root word shows "well informed and those with understanding" to be the best translation of the word Alimiin.
If we follow the rules of grammar from Arab scholars and as translated by English translators like William Wright and Lexicon as translated by Edward Lane, and look at the meanings using "Gezm" as indicating break off points and a joining mark for two separate words, (words joined together, as it is a script writing technique indicated with a Gezm ,that these were actually two separate words, but written joined together), the above translations does make sense.Following attempt at translation, using above technique may serve as an example.
AL= The
Ham= Decree
Do= for the vast/entire land
Lillahi= from Rab
Rabul= creator of
Alimiin= of those who can understand ( and thus comprehend and follow this decree from the Rab) ( This does not reflect that he is not the creator of other things, but merely indicates one of his creations)Does it mean that the opening statement of Gods book is a statement about the content of the book and for whom it is intended, rather than a praise for himself.
The above breakdown of the words is using the technique of writing and word joining explained in the above referenced books.Praying Rab for his guidance and true understanding of his message.
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Herbman, concept of jezm and sukoon is new, in respect that it is never been applied for translation of Alkitab. However, the meaning/understanding that they indicate joinning of words or in "kn" terminology zipping of words is not new please see in following links from free minds, and our beacon site. I had added relavant pages from Lane and William Wright during my discussion for readers ease.
Badar
http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9596746.0http//www.ourbeacon.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1233&highlight=jezm
Lane's relavant page
http//www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume2/00000057.pdf
W Wright's go to page 14/166, please for discussion on jezm.
http//www.ghazali.org/arabic/WrightArabicGrammarVol1.pdf
