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A very important thing to note is that we must never change translated verses, hadiths or other quotes with our own words (you added your own commentary "to Allah" and "according to Islam" in parentheses to the 9:5 in the Kafir article, I guess to emphasise that the Arabic words were salat and zakat). A reader would wrongly assume that this was part of Yusuf Ali's translation, which often has its own round brackets. Worse, the site would risk being accused of tampering with translations. The most we do is occasionally add square brackets (not round brackets) just with the transliterated Arabic word used. Then there is no risk of confusion. If something in a quote is mistranslated, we can add commentary and evidence before or after the quote. [[User:Lightyears|Lightyears]] ([[User talk:Lightyears|talk]]) 00:36, 2 December 2020 (UTC) | A very important thing to note is that we must never change translated verses, hadiths or other quotes with our own words (you added your own commentary "to Allah" and "according to Islam" in parentheses to the 9:5 in the Kafir article, I guess to emphasise that the Arabic words were salat and zakat). A reader would wrongly assume that this was part of Yusuf Ali's translation, which often has its own round brackets. Worse, the site would risk being accused of tampering with translations. The most we do is occasionally add square brackets (not round brackets) just with the transliterated Arabic word used. Then there is no risk of confusion. If something in a quote is mistranslated, we can add commentary and evidence before or after the quote. [[User:Lightyears|Lightyears]] ([[User talk:Lightyears|talk]]) 00:36, 2 December 2020 (UTC) | ||
==Changes to Muhammad and Booty== | |||
Hi [[User:Raman]], I am not going to accept your change to the Qur'an, Hadith, Scholars: Muhammad and Booty Page. The additions you made cite tertiary sources with commentary, they are good but out of place on this page. Rather, since they all deal with slavrey, I would like to create a new page called "Slavery in Islamic Law" and you could put the material there. If you would like to work on the page, I can create it and then paste your material into it. Please let me know how you would like to proceed.--[[User:Asmith|Asmith]] ([[User talk:Asmith|talk]]) 05:36, 17 October 2021 (UTC) | |||