TRANSLATING CULTURAL BOUND LEXICONS OF THE HOLY QUR’AN: CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF SELECTED QUR’ANIC CULTURAL BOUND LEXICONS TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH
Abstract
It is manifested that the basic requirement for rendering the meanings of the Holy Qur‟an is result of the extensive and continued spread of the teachings of Islam in numerous languages in the world. Translating the meanings of the Holy Qur‟an into other language is considered most significant job for transferring the divine message of the Holy Qur‟an which is full of intuition, teaching and countless values and principles, to human beings faithfully and accurately. Translating the Qur‟anic cultural lexicons into other languages especially into English is termed as more challenging and problematic task for translators due to cultural, structural, semantic and lexical variances between Arabic and English language. This study highlights the challenges and problems of translating Qur‟anic cultural bound lexicons facing translators while translating process of the sensitive Qur‟anic text which is full of various rhetoric devices. This study also explores some solutions of the challenges encountered during translating procedure by adopting various techniques and strategies. This study investigates to what extent English translatorsuccesses to overcome the translating the intended meanings of cultural bound lexicons for transferring the natural meanings and expressions of Holy Qur‟an with naturalness, faithfulness and accuracy without occurrence of any type of distortion of meaning at any level. This study analysis some selected Qur‟anic cultural bound lexicons translated into English by Pikhtall focusing on the adequacy and suitability of the solutions based on translating strategies and techniques for achieving accuracy, naturalness and faithfulness in transferring the intended meanings of the Holy Qur‟an to the readers of the target text. This study ends in presenting some findings and recommendations for finding out the adequate solutions to overcome the problems being faced during translating process of Qur‟anic cultural bound lexicons.
Keywords: The Holy Qur‟an; Translation; Cultural Bound Lexicons; Challenges and Solutions
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