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 Post subject: Verses 2:23-25
PostPosted: 07 Jun 2009, 08:37 
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 Post subject: Re: Verses 2:23-25
PostPosted: 17 Jul 2009, 03:50 
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{2:23} And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our Servant [Muhammad], then produce a surah the like thereof and call upon your witnesses other than God, if you should be truthful.

I think that "Our worshiper" is a better, and more direct translation of عبدنا. Also, I don't have any problem translating سورة to Chapter.

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{2:24} But if you do not - and you will never be able to - then fear the Fire, whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for the disbelievers.

The Arabic doesn't say الرجال, it says الناس. Therefore the translation should be people, not men.

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 Post subject: Suggested translation
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{2:23} And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our worshiper (Muhammad), then produce a chapter of the like thereof and call upon your witnesses other than God, if you should be truthful.

{2:24} But if you do not - and you never will - then watch out for the Fire, whose fuel is people and stones, prepared for the disbelievers.

{2:25} And herald glad tidings to those who have believed and done the righteous [deeds] that for them are gardens flowing beneath which are rivers. Whenever they are provided therefrom with a provision of fruit, they would say, "This is what we were provided before." And it is given to them looking alike. And for them therein are purified spouses, and they are therein lasting.

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