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| jaliyah Newbie United States Joined 5124 days ago 20 posts - 22 votes | Message 9 of 11 01 February 2012 at 9:03am | IP Logged |
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vonPeterhof - good point, and I thought of that, but by that measure, can you say that every Muslim can "speak Arabic" merely because they can memorize some Koranic verses, probably with terrible pronunciation and without much understanding of the meaning, let alone of Arabic in general?
I mean, I've seen interviews of the Shah on YouTube where he speaks flawless French and very good (if accented) English, but I can't imagine him conversing in Arabic, which is what I mean by "speak Arabic"... By the way, how did you manage to get "3 persons have voted this message useful" when no one voted for any other message in this thread? Pretty amazing stuff! I guess you must be popular here, huh? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Gorgoll2 Senior Member Brazil veritassword.blogspo Joined 5145 days ago 159 posts - 192 votes  Speaks: Portuguese* | Message 10 of 11 04 February 2012 at 8:57pm | IP Logged |
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Though I am not a muslim, I think Arabic is sine non qua for learned Muslims, once
even the Koran translations are quite discouraged untill for prayers. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jaliyah Newbie United States Joined 5124 days ago 20 posts - 22 votes | Message 11 of 11 07 February 2012 at 8:49am | IP Logged |
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Maybe, but the Shah of Iran was hardly a "learned Muslim" - in fact he was hardly a Muslim at all... maybe a "Muslim in name only".
Now, if you're talking about those Ayatollahs and mullahs, then sure - I'm sure their Arabic is better than their Persian, if they speak Persian at all. But my question was about the Shah of Iran... 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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