Show turks shaken in m their veneration for koran arabic arabia being a sacred language the ecclesiastics have cried out against their holy book the koran appearing in any other tongue cut but the turkish government has in spite of 01 this allowed the publication icat ion of 0 three separate translations fourteen thousand copies have been sold soh turks who formerly heard the sounding arabic 0 of the koran without understanding anything of its meaning 1 imagined it c charged with tremendous and mystic meanings that impression melts away when the noran koran Is read in the vernacular it Is sometimes enough to pi place rice a koran and a testament in the hands of a turkish reader and leave him 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 anglo egyptian sudan sunday school times |