Show turks shaken in their veneration for koran arabic being a sacred language the ecclesiastics have cried out against holy book the koran appearing in any other tongue but the turkish government has in spite of this allowed the publication of three separate translations fourteen thousand copies have been sold turks who formerly heard the sounding arabic of the koran with out understanding anything of its meaning 1 it charged with tremendous and mystic meanings that impression melts away when the koran Is read in the vernacular it Is sometimes enough to place a koran and a testament in the hands of a turkish reader and leave efm 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 arl mary textbook in all the government schools is the koran and islam Is gaining ground constantly in the anglo egyptian sudan sunday school times |