RE: Quran Project

[Moustafa Elqabbany <elqabbany at yahoo dot com>]

Assalamu alaikum.

 

The Qur'an is not like any other project.  The Qur'an has to be done perfectly or not at all.  Getting the help of a scholar is not sufficient.  A qualified committe that reviews masahif and goes through them with a fine toothed comb is necessary.  No one is forcing us to do the Qur'an project.  I suggest we *don't* do it unless we're sure we won't make things worse.

 

Please don't just dismiss me as a crank.  I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade. 

 

I could be more explicit in my concerns, but this is not the forum for it.

 

Salam,

Moustafa

Maher Ben Moussa <maher_dev at hotmail dot com> wrote:

Salam 3alaykoum,

Thank you very much Ahmad Twaijry for your interest in helping with the
quran data. I'm happy to see that we're one step further in this issue.
I hope we can finally get trusted data through Shik Al-Monjid and his
contacts.

It's sad to hear nothing anymore from Mohammed Yousif. The only way to
contact him is by his email. Can someone else contact him trough other
ways as Nadim described.

The development of the Quran application has to go further too. I hope I
can have more time to work on it next weeks.

Maher

> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at arabeyes dot org
[mailto:general-bounces at arabeyes dot org]
> On Behalf Of Nadim Shaikli
> Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 10:38 PM
> To: General Arabization Discussion
> Subject: Re: Quran Project
>
> --- Ahmad Twaijry wrote:
> > Qurancomplex.org is a company (yes a company) so don't think you
will
> > get any reply from them.
>
> What a shame - I think we should continue to pursue them until we hear
> a NO from 'em (why would they not want to help us ?)
>
> > Anyway I can contact "Shik Mohammad Al-Monjid"
> > (http://63.175.194.25/words/munajed/munajed_ara.htm)
> >
> > He is a shik every one know him in Saudi Arabia (and even out of
Saudi
> > Arabia) and I am sure if I told him about this project he will be
very
> > happy and he will provide to us everything we want.
> >
> > if you want me to contact him just tell me and I will insh'a Allah
go
> > to dammam and meet him (because he is very busy and I think the best
> > is to meet him not to call him)
>
> Yeah please. We need a proper authority to look over our work and to
> make sure that our data files are prim and proper. We need to make
sure
> that we are not bundling ta7reef translations for one. Shouldn't (and
> isn't there) a proper Islamic authority that looks over these works to
> "certify" them as proper (ie. their translated meanings have not been
> tampered with and are correct and genuine, etc ?)
>
> > Here is some of his web site :
> > http://www.IslamQA.com ( since 1997)
> > http://www.WorkForIslam.com/
> > http://www.islamicaudiovideo.com/
> > http://www.islamselect.com
> >
> > I am sure he will be very happy to help us in this project.
>
> I really hope so - I've made this call a number of times in hopes of
> someone to take it upon themselves to get in touch with those that are
> in-the-know.
>
> > Just send to me what you exactly need to continue the project and I
will
> > ask him in the weekend
>
> Here's an email that I sent to qurancomplex.org (got NO reply) which
sums
> up my personal concerns and questions -- I'm sure there are others.
>
> http://www.arabeyes.org/~nadim/tmp/qc.html
>
> The whole point is we need to have someone with proper credentials and
> proper background who is respected and trusted looking over what we do
> (in terms of data content and translated files, etc). There are
plenty
> of sites on the net the seem to contains plenty of translated info,
we're
> simply not sure if they are "accepted" docs and need help in that
regard.
>
> Thanks and Salam.
>
> - Nadim
>
>
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