naim@eecs.nwu.edu (Naim Abdullah) (06/01/91)
Camm Maguire recently announced the availability of the Shakir translation
of the Quran available by anonymous ftp from princeton.edu.
On reading the online translation, I noticed errors where a blank
was replaced by a period and once where a period was inserted
spuriously (changing the word "naught" to "n.aught"). This problem
is due to the scanner and the character recognition software.
Anyway, I ran the command:
% egrep '([a-z]|[A-Z])\.([a-z]|[A-Z])' *
and removed the correct entries to arrive at the following list
of errors:
===========================Error List=======================================
002.TheCow:123. And.be on your guard against a day when no soul shall
002.TheCow:262. (As for) those who spend their property in the way.of Allah,
003.TheFamilyOfImran:and the other unbelieving, whom they saw twice as.many as
004.Women:wherever you find them; and against these We have given.you a
006.TheCattle:without knowledge, and forbid.what Allah has given to them
008.TheSpoilsOfWar:7. And when.Allah promised you one of the two parties that it
009.Repentance:for us; He is our.Patron; and on Allah let the believers rely.
012.Yusuf: 44. They said: Confused dreams, and we do not know.the
015.TheRock: 15. They would certainly say: Only our eyes.have been
016.TheBee: was the.end of the rejecters.
016.TheBee: and He has given you tents.of the skins of cattle which you
017.TheIsraelites: 76. And.surely they purposed to unsettle you from the land
021.TheProphets: 79. So We.made Sulaiman to understand it; and to each one We
022.ThePilgrimage: surely.Allah is Pardoning, Forgiving.
022.ThePilgrimage: serve your Lord, and do.good that you may succeed.
023.TheBelievers: 37. There is n.aught but our life in this world; we die and
033.TheAllies: has made.their doing naught; and this is easy to Allah.
051.TheScatterers: 14. Taste your persecution! this is what.you would hasten
054.TheMoon: them after.the manner of a Mighty, Powerful One.
055.TheBeneficient: 50. In both of them are.two fountains flowing.
068.ThePen: 41. Or have.they associates if they are truthful.
075.TheResurrection: 12. With your Lord alone shall on that.day be the place of
078.TheGreatEvent: 18. The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you.shall
096.TheClot: 18. We too would.summon the braves of the army.
100.TheAssaulters: 10. And what is in the breasts is made.apparent?
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Please correct your copies. I have sent this list to Camm so that he can
fix the distribution on princeton.edu.
Naim