Best Qur'an?

[CapnAwesome]

I'm not sure any translation can make the Qu'ran anything less then an extremely boring read.

The version of the Qu'ran that I read was a modern translation by Muslim Arabic authors. I thought the footnotes were very very apologetic to the point of possibly being misleading. There were footnotes to everything that sounded bad or stupid or horrific to explain what it actually meant, despite what it seemed to be translated as. To the point it was kind of humorous and if you knew the bible stories that it was ripped off of, you could see right through that. Mostly I thought it was just very boring and tedious.

Note, only 20% of Muslims speak arabic, so most people are dealing with translations. So when Muslims say 'you don't understand unless you speak Arabic' they are saying 80% of Muslims can't understand their own religion.

If you seek fun; go watch a movie or read some comics; The Walking Dead are pretty good:

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Now THAT is fun

So the Quran is pretty much a book that causes the skin of the reader to go chilling from fear, then after few verses comes to be smooth; wishing to read more and more about the author:

( Sura 39 Verse 23 )   Allah has sent down the best statement: a consistent Book wherein is reiteration. The skins shiver therefrom of those who fear their Lord; then their skins and their hearts relax at the remembrance of Allah. That is the guidance of Allah by which He guides whom He wills. And one whom Allah leaves astray - for him there is no guide.

In other words; the book is not a new season of Games of Thrones. This is some teenage mentality right there, or worse: a child's mentality; we usually try to represent facts in a "game" or a "colorful volume" so kinder garden kids don't get "bored" during learning, I thought you're bigger than that !

Anyhow ><

The Qu'ran didn't make me chill from fear, nor did it make me wish to read more. It made me yawn out of boredom, mostly. You'd think that an almighty god could write a better book, or could write it in more then one language. If Arabic is so difficult to translate, and the most important book of all time, written by god, is so difficult to translate, then God is an idiot for choosing it as a language. Or the much easier explanation, Muhammad made the whole thing up and arabic is the language he spoke. Which is the more reasonable explanation? An all knowing, all powerful God is going to reveal his word in only one diffcult to translate language, or it was made by a man who spoke that language? What a pile of horseshit.