(December 7, 2013 at 12:47 pm)Nineteen Wrote:(December 7, 2013 at 12:34 pm)Psykhronic Wrote: The problem is figuring out what words mean in older arabic, and the hard part is - NOBODY speaks older arabic anymore. So scholars have to piece together what the Koran is actually saying based on what they can find of old arabic. So if our understanding of old arabic is limited, which it is, then you may not be understanding the original meaning at all.
I'm not sure if you speak imaginary or based on evidences . Arabic is the same as the first day , but usage of some words has changed . For example the word which is translated as "head cover" in verse 24:31 actually means "cover" , not "head cover" . Islamic scholars translate it according to their views .
...Yeah, so Islamic scholars translate it, so you are getting different translations. And linguistically, it's so very unlikely that arabic would stay the same since day one. My evidence is the entire field of linguistics, have fun taking that apart.
