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“That a text is untranslatable is too grandiose a statement to utter. But in the matter of translating the Qur’an, a translator – though competent and discriminating as he might be – shall find it a persuasively challenging undertaking if not an impossible one. These difficulties stem from many factors including semantic, linguistic, syntactic and lexical ones.” — Ali Salami
That a text is untranslatable is too grandiose a
statement to utter. But in the matter of translating the Qur’an, a translator – though competent and discriminating as he might be – shall find it a persuasively challenging undertaking if not an impossible one. These
difficulties stem from many factors including semantic, linguistic, syntactic and lexical ones.