Zakir Naik – Is it Compulsory to Learn Arabic Language to Understand the Quran?

			Salam Alaikum zakhar and good evening to my brothers of Islam and non Islam people. My name is Ron
J. Jayaraman. I'm a technologist from USA, having lived there for about 35 years. And now the last
three years I've been practicing spirituality, with the motto of getting liberated while I'm alive.
		

			I have read the Quran, I have one of my friends as my life friend, for the last 45 years was a true
Muslim. My question here is, first, let me make a little statement. And after that, I will post my
question
		

			in order to understand something, a there a secular or spiritual.
		

			We read the book. When we read the book, we read it with an understanding
		

			with that statement, why was there a stress for about an hour of speech from your son that
understanding Quran reading it, while understanding and language? Saudi Arabian, Arabic language was
stressed because Quran is beyond the language according to what I feel and what I meditate on.
		

			So the stress on
		

			every Muslim to learn Arabic
		

			kind of seems to me as a compulsive. Is that what Koran says? Without a good question, he says that
he wants to learn about speciality and he has read the Quran, but he fails to understand why was the
lecture given by fire ignite my son
		

			on the stress of learning Arabic to understand the Quran? And why is it compulsory? If you heard my
son's complete speech, he never said is compulsory for every Muslim should know Arabic He didn't say
that. Knowing Arabic is not a criteria to go to john not because I myself don't know Arabic. I
myself, don't Arabic as a language choice are a little bit here and there understand. I don't know
Arabic as a language but my son knows Mashallah. He knows better than me. He can translate the Quran
directly, I can't. But in his speech, if you heard his speech, he says that if you don't know
Arabic, at least read the translation of the Quran. So his test was Quran should be read with
		

			understand the question mark was
		

			Al Quran? Should it be read with understanding Yes or no? And the answer was, yes.
		

			He didn't say a person should know Arabic. What he said, You should at least understand the Quran.
But the best way to understand the Quran
		

			is to know Arabic as a language. Whenever you translate any book, when you translate any normal
book, the translation can never be 100% perfect. It can be 80% 90% 99%
		

			more difficult, the language more pure is the language more difficult is the translation. No Quran
is the most untranslatable book in the world. So translation of the Quran can never be close to the
Quran. Because the Arabic language is so powerful and so pure. And secondly, it is the word of
Almighty God Allah subhanaw taala that is the reason the best to understand is to learn Arabic as
the language
		

			secondly, if you don't know Arabic or the language, then he said that read the translation the
language you understand the best if you know English in English, if you know Tamil read in Tamil, if
you know hindi, hindi if you know ODU read those two translations the race test was the bottom line
was read the Quran with understanding and the question is logical for a layman.
		

			Your question is that why should a person say that the proper understanding is understood. Whenever
a person reads a book it is to be read with understanding what you fail to realize in the Muslim
community. Unfortunately, as my son said, more than 80% of the Muslims are non Arabs. And they don't
matter because the language now there's a Hadith of the Prophet and he says if you read the Quran,
you get some up. So based on that most of the Muslims when they recite the Quran, they recite in
Arabic but they don't understand it. So it is the most widely read book in the world. But it is also
		

			the book which is maximum read without understanding. So my son was saying that after reading the
Arabic portion, which most of the non Muslim don't understand, at least read the translation of that
portion in the language you understand the best. So he was laying stress that Quran is a book of
guidance.
		

			It is a book of Almighty God is requesting all the Muslims that besides reading Arabic also read the
translation. That is secondly, but the best is learning Arabic as a language because if you know
Arabic and know lava fossa, which is taught in our school, which we started with some international
school in Bombay Islamic school in Chennai, then we find that attachment
		

			and understanding of the Quran is far more superior Hope that answers the question.