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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only reason for this whole read vs recite is various PPs insistence that Muslims are highly recommended to read the Quran in Arabic.  If one can't read it it in Arabic, one doesn't truly understand Islam.  Therefore, all PPs on this and other threads are incompetent to opine on anything in the Quran or having to do with Islam because they do not read Arabic.

Various other PPs have pointed out that the vast majority of Muslims do not read Arabic, and this has been true since the inception of Islam.  Illiteracy rates in the Arab world through the last century were very high.  Few Muslims in non-Arab African or Asia countries can read Arabic, though millions of school children learn to recite the Quran. Nowhere in Islam would it be said that Muslim illiterates in Arabic cannot truly understand Islam.

When this is pointed out, various PPs say of course one can be illiterate and understand Islam, But those people are Muslim so they get a pass from these PPs, even as they tell literate non-Muslim PPs who are quite versed in Islam and Islamic history that they can't possibly opine on anything in Islam because they don't read Arabic.

And when one of these PPs who actually did know Arabic looked up one of the suras and found the Arabic did not support a Muslim PP's contention in the way she said it did but there was actually other support in the sura for Muslim PP's views, Muslim PP couldn't even acknowledge that maybe non-Muslim PP had provided a much better argument based on the Arabic.

I guess that would be conceding the anathema that non-Muslim PP could be qualified to understand Islam.  Slippery slope from there to conceding the other knowledgeable non-Muslim PPs may have actual command of the facts and are fit to opine.  Can't have that happen.[/quote]

Regardless of what is happening in Muslim or Arab or NonArab countries, simply call a few Islamic schools in this country and even in other countries. You will learn that children are learning to READ the Quran there, not simply learning to memorize.

I get that you want so badly to win this fight but it is a fact that it IS recommended Muslims learn to read the Quran in Arabic. Poor people may not have access or ability and Allah/God is merciful and would not punish them for lacking ability or access, but others should try and they do. Sorry, but this is truth.[/quote]
What is the truth is that most Muslims do not speak or read Arabic. Give a copy of the Quran to an average Bengali, Bosnian, Indonesian, Malay, Chechen, Azeri etc. and see what happens.  You have your Arab goggles on. [/quote]

No, I don't have my Arab goggles on. I just know because I lived in some of these countries before or have family members from there. I do not get my information from tv shows or google.[/quote]

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