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DAL INTERNATIONAL NEWS Sunday 17th January, 2021
Facts are the lifeblood of
Journalism Volume 104
UK ISSN: 2633-2728
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MISTAKES IN YORUBA QURAN AND OTHER LANGUAGES ACROSS THE GLOBE Written by Dauda Awwal The Arabic language has been considered as one of the languages that had an influence on the Yoruba language in Africa. The contact of the Yoruba’s with Arabs in Ile-Ife 1450 through Islam has affected the culture, social, religions and commercial life of the Yoruba’s today in Nigeria. Bishop Ajayi Crowther was born 1801, sold to Portuguese by Fulani’s liberated in Sierra Leone. Later, he became one of the students of Church Missionary Society in 1827.He Studied bible in England and became Bishop. He and John Raban worked hard to set up Yoruba Alphabets from Latin Alphabets and used the letters to translate the Bible to Yoruba Language from English language. Rev.Michael Samuel Cole became the first translator of the Holy Quran to Yoruba Language 1906, printed 1924 by Church Missionary Society (CMS) Lagos. Cole relied on English translation to do his work because he lacks Arabic and Islamic studies, he was a Christian, and his 410 pages are pure fully Yoruba language, no single Arabic text except the front page. He did not know hadith, fiqh, etc. The amount of knowledge available to do the job is limited. Cole put two dots on Nuun instead of only one on the front page of his work, he put the Fatiah sign under the hamzah instead on top. Cole made much error from the front page to his 410 pages. In page 47 he named Suratun-Nisai as Nisa and translated it as –Sura Obinrin instead Awon Obinrin, because Nisau in Arabic means women, not a woman. He also translated Raheem to Oludawa and Oba-Olubanidaro instead Alaanu julo or Asake julo (ni orun). In 1965 E.K Akinlade also published the second Yoruba translation of the Quran. Ahmadiyyah also published Yoruba 1976 and igbo(1990) Hausa-1992, but Abubakar Gumi produced another Hausa Quran
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translation in 1979. An Indian man called Naeem came to Nigeria and produced a Yoruba Quran. I sat down to do a compilation analysis of the copies and spotted many errors, no one is perfect, wamaa uuteetum minal ilmi illa qaleela-there is a limitation for knowledge for everyone in this world. I am not so sure if the respected Sheikh Adam Al-Ilory has fully participated in the translation of the Arabic Quran to the Yoruba language published in 1973. Although he wrote the preface of the version, yet for example, Suratul Baqarah-Chapter 2 has 286 verses but I spotted 216 errors in the translation from Arabic to the Yoruba language in this single chapter. QURAN 1 carries three mistakes QURAN 2 the following verses were translated wrongly in the edition of 19732,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,22,23,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32, 33,34,35,36,37,39,40,41,42,43,45,46,48,49,50,51,53,55,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,6 4,65,67,69,72,73,74,76,78,80,81,82,83,84,85,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,99 ,101,102,103,105,107,108,110,111,113,114,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122, 123,124,125,126,127,128,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,138,139,141,144, 145,146,149,150,151,152,153,154,155,157,158,159,160,162,164,165,166,167, 168,170,172,173,174,175,176,177,178,179,183,184,185,166,187,188,189,191, 194,199,200,202,203,204,205,206,209,210,213,215,217,219,220,221,222,224, 225,228,229,230,231,232,235,238,242,243,245,246,247,248,250,252,253,254, 255,257,258,261,264,265,266,267,270,271,273,274,275,276,279,280,281,282, 283, 284,289, and 286. Attaorah was revealed to Jews through Prophet Musa in the Hebrew language; today it has been translated to 70 different languages for better understanding by the people. Injeel-Bible revealed to the Israelites through Prophet Isa-Jesus Christ in Aramaic language, it has been translated into 531 languages and some portions interpreted in 2,883 languages. It is true that Quran divinely guarded, the 114 chapters and the Holy Qur'an had been revealed in classical Arabic for 23 years from 610 AD to 632 AD and remain un-edited, un-reviewed, and unblemished till eternity; but the translations to various languages are being revised due to human errors. Quran has been translated into over 55 languages. The Quran is not only the scripture of the Muslims but also a treasure trove for their spiritual, social, and political guidance. It is written in the Arabic language. Several efforts have been made by scholars to translate it into a variety of languages. The need for
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understanding the Quran continues to exert itself on both the Muslims and non-Muslims in society. This article is a source of information for Muslims and non-Muslims on the history of the complete Quran translation across the globe. Muslims hold the Quran as the words of God and the most perfect of his revelations to mankind. While they believe that other great prophets such as Moses and Jesus had existed before Muhammad, they maintain that Muhammad is the seal of the prophets, the last in a line that extended back to Adam. Quran is divided into 114 chapters, the shortest chapter is Kaothar, while the longest chapter is Baqarah, 89 were revealed in mecca, 25 were revealed to Muhammad in Madina. Google Awwal Television on Facebook and YouTube search for ‘Mistakes in Yoruba Quran Translation and other languages across the globe by Daud Awwal for more details. DAUD AWWAL, FIMC, CMC (UK)
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