Why we need to be careful before we mention Quranic verses and Ahadith
Assalamoalaikum readers. I have been reflecting about various events happening around me and have been working on quite a few write-ups-some of which require detailed research too. So I decided that I not hurry and give the write-ups their due time. Hence, the delay. However, there has been one thing, which I feel, demands a little urgency. Alhamdulillah, in most of our Islamic and tarbiyah-based gatherings, we discuss Quranic verses and ahadith. However, neither do we mention the Arabic of it, nor do we, in most cases, adequately read the commentaries on verses and ahadith done by scholars in voluminous books. This is where we are usually mistaken. While translating them into our own language, we fail to convey what they could have meant originally in Arabic, we fail to realize their context of origin, and underestimate how our own version of translation can not only decrease the effect, but in fact give it a meaning, which, sometimes, goes against the fundament...