Issa Mottaghizadeh; Mohammad Reza Ahmadi
Abstract
The Holy Quran has a sturdy syntactical, morphological and rhetorical structure. The interpretation process of this heavenly book requires great attention to the syntax and grammar of Arabic language. The letter “Fa” is one of those meaningful letters in Arabic language that has high diversity, ...
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The Holy Quran has a sturdy syntactical, morphological and rhetorical structure. The interpretation process of this heavenly book requires great attention to the syntax and grammar of Arabic language. The letter “Fa” is one of those meaningful letters in Arabic language that has high diversity, and this fact makes it complex for the translators to interpret it into Persian. The Persian translators have proposed “then”, “after that” and “next” as its equivalents, which considering the diversity of this letter seems to be insufficient. The aim of the present study is to conduct a grammatical analysis of how some translators such as Elahi Ghomshei, Fouladvand, and Khorramshahi have translated this letter in Quran into Persian. One of the results that we have reached upon is that these translators have had a satisfactory performance in translating Communicative Fa but have failed to translate Communicative Fa, Appealing Fa, Causal Fa and Excess Fa. As a result, their equivalents for Appeal Fa and Excess Faare incorrect, since this type of Fa shouldn’t be translated at all. Also, in translating Causal Fa, they have not paid due attention to the cause and effect and have not conveyed the causality relation. Furthermore, in translating Communicative Fa, they have only considered the emotional aspect, and have not considered that part of the sentence that has been omitted, and this fact has caused them to go awry in translation.
Ali Salimi; Shahriar Hemmati; Mohammad-Nabi Ahmadi
Volume 3, Issue 6 , March 2013, , Pages 13-28
Abstract
The translators and commentators of the Qur'an since long ago have translated the phrase ‘Akadu Ukhfiha’ [I Almost Conceal It] in various and even contradictory ways. Most of such translators and commentators have translated the above-mentioned phrase as ‘I want to conceal’. They ...
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The translators and commentators of the Qur'an since long ago have translated the phrase ‘Akadu Ukhfiha’ [I Almost Conceal It] in various and even contradictory ways. Most of such translators and commentators have translated the above-mentioned phrase as ‘I want to conceal’. They assume that ‘Kaad’ here indicates the intensity of the action of ‘concealing’ (Ukhfiha). By the same token, another group of such commentators have adopted an opposite view in their translations. They believe that within this very phrase, ‘Kaad’ neutralizes the overall meaning of ‘concealing’ and, accordingly, the acceptable meaning of the phrase is ‘to reveal’. Based on an analysis of the various uses and functions of ‘kaad’ in Arabic and the Glorious Qur'an, this present paper attempts to take a look into this issue with the purpose of further elaborating upon the exact meaning of this Quranic phrase. In other words, the research intends to indentify the right interpretation of this verse; the one which is consistent with other verses of the Holy Qur'an. The results indicate that the verb ‘Kaad’ in this verse has the same common meaning of ‘Kaad’ in Arabic. In positive form, it refers to nonoccurence of a verb, and in negative form, it shows that a verb hardly occurs. Considering the uses of this verb in Arabic and the Holy Qur'an, far-fetched interpretations of this verse is not justifiable and is not consistent with the language of the Qur'an.
