أسباب الضعف في مدى مقروئية النصوص القرآنية المترجمة إلى اللغة الملايوية
Reasons for the weakness of the readability of Quranic texts translated into Malay language
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Readability of translated text, Quranic texts, Malay languageAbstract
It is clear that the translation of the meaning of the Quran plays an important role to educate non-Arabic Muslim speakers with the messages of the Quran and its teachings. Clarity, easiness in the style of language, and the choice of words ensure that the messages of the Quran are properly or at least partially readable. The readability of the translated text refers to how a reader can easily understand a translated text. Readability also denotes the clarity or complexity of the text itself. Various factors are employed to measure readability, such as sentence length, complexity, sentence structure clarity, repeated words' numbers, and cohesion between the texts. This research aims to analyze the extent of the readability of the Quranic texts that are translated into the Malay language. In achieving this objective, this study employs descriptive, analytical, and comparative methods on several Quranic translations, namely the translation by Mahmoud Younis, Abdullah Basmeih, and Zaini Dahalan. Based on several examples, the study concludes that some of the translated text is non-eloquent due to the use of parentheses in convergent positions and occurrences of redundant repetitions. Furthermore, evidence also demonstrates to a certain extent unnecessary complexity in sentence structure due to the appearance of different pronouns referring to the same person or thing as well as a mismatch of pronoun to the referred noun. Therefore, the issue of the extent of the readability of translated text has a crucial role in ensuring the cohesion and coherence of sentences, whether partially or in their entirety.
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