- Apr 13, 2006
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Whenever I come on this forum, I always feel that if I write something in Punjabi I will be bashed badly which seems right too because Punjabi is not the official language of this forum but something I don't appreciate much.
Today I was reading about Quran and found that it was not written by Mohammed Ji but composed after his death by his followers. Even many years after his death, Quran wasn’t there. Originally it was written in Arabic and then later translated/interpreted to different languages because all Muslims do not understand Arabic as their predecessors do. This added more misery to the already miserably preserved document and result is what we can see everywhere.
That made me think about our Sri Guru Granth Sahib. It was written in Gurmukhi and has gone through minor font and script adjustments which could have affected it already but not to a great extent, But the matter of concern is translated versions of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. What we discuss here in English? Will it lead our next generations to same misery?
Do we need to push for Sikhs to learn Punjabi to correctly understand what’s written in Sri Guru Granth sahib?
Thoughts?
Today I was reading about Quran and found that it was not written by Mohammed Ji but composed after his death by his followers. Even many years after his death, Quran wasn’t there. Originally it was written in Arabic and then later translated/interpreted to different languages because all Muslims do not understand Arabic as their predecessors do. This added more misery to the already miserably preserved document and result is what we can see everywhere.
That made me think about our Sri Guru Granth Sahib. It was written in Gurmukhi and has gone through minor font and script adjustments which could have affected it already but not to a great extent, But the matter of concern is translated versions of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. What we discuss here in English? Will it lead our next generations to same misery?
Do we need to push for Sikhs to learn Punjabi to correctly understand what’s written in Sri Guru Granth sahib?
Thoughts?