Ipeed Freely

2017-07-10 15:27:17 -0400

ALLAN PETERSON : That’s right. Diversity is our strength. Don’t worry you’re not a bigot for hating radical islam. Muslim scholars hate it too. Here are some facts about it.



The Noble Quran by Muhammad Muhsin Khan and Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali

The Hilali-Khan translation has been criticized for inserting the interpretations of the Wahabi school directly into the English rendition of the Qur’an. It has been accused of inculcating Muslims and potential Muslims with militant interpretations of Islam through parenthesis, as teachings of the Qur’an itself.

Dr. Ahmed Farouk Musa, an academician at Monash University, considered the Hilali-Khan translation as being a major cause of extremism and a work of propaganda distributed by Saudi religious authorities with money from its oil-rich government. Similarly, Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, head of Bethesda’s Minaret of Freedom Institute, has claimed that the translation is a Wahabi rendering of the Qur’an and is not accepted by Muslims in the US.

A number of academics have also criticized the Hilali-Khan translation on stylistic and linguistic grounds. Dr William S. Peachy, an American professor of English at College of Medicine, King Saud University at Qasseem considered the translation “repulsive” and rejected by anyone outside of Saudi Arabia. Dr. Abdel-Haleem, Arabic Professor at SOAS , London University, noted that he found the Hilali-Khan translation “repelling”.

The Director of King Fahd International Centre for Translation, King Saud University, Riyad, Dr. A. Al-Muhandis, expressed his dissatisfaction with the translation’s style and language, being too poor and simplistic.

The Hilali-Khan translation has also been criticised by several prominent Western Muslim academics as well. Khaleel Mohammed, Sheila Musaji, Robert Crane, and Khaled Abou El Fadl has taken the translation to task for supposed Muslim supremacism and bigotry.

commented