Show turks shaken in their veneration for koran arabic A being a sacred language the ecclesiastics have cried 0 out ut against their holy book the koran appearing in any other tongue but the turkish government has in spite of 0 f this allowed the publication ot of three separate translations fourteen thousand copies have been sol sold turks who formerly heard beard the sounding arabic of the koran without understanding anything ot of its meaning imagined it charged with tremendous and a n d mystic meanings that impression me melts I 1 ts aw away a y when the koran Is re read q d in the vernacular jt it Is some sometimes ti mes enough to place a noran koran and it a testament in the lands hands of a turkish reader and leave him film to draw his own conclusions it Is said that kemal pasha in disgust threw the book across the room into a corner yet in the sudan the primary textbook in all the government schools Is the koran and islam Is gaining ground constantly in the lie anglo egyptian sudan sunday school times |