04-13-2006, 09:12 PM
Bismillah
as salam alykom
I received this email from the web master of quran.nu.
Mash aAllah they have a good site with excellent functions:
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By the way, in case you know anyone who may be willing
to assist our online quran project, please direct them
to http://quran.nu/help
We're in desperate need of funds for the following two
very important projects:
1. Antique Russian translation of the Qur'an.
we have located a copy's of the oldest extant Russian
translation of the Qur'an. The translation was
prepared during the reign of the Tsars by a Bulgar
Muslim scholar, Sablukov. It is easily as accurate as
modern Russian translations (which are hosted at
Quran.nu) but at the same time has a uniquely older
literary style. If we can bring this translation
online, we would be gifting not only the 25 or so
million Russian Muslims themselves, but the over 250
million readers of Russian throughout the former
Soviet Union. We require funds for the translation's
purchase, shipment, script modernisation, and
rendition into electronic format.
2. Georgian translation of the Qur'an.
About 1 in 4 Georgian speakers are Muslim. Yet,
shockingly, there is no readily available translation
of the Qur'an in their language. We had began to
prepare for a Georgian translation but, due to lack of
funds, were forced to stall the project. Georgians are
the only non-Muslim majority Caucasian nation and have
much in common with their Muslim neighbours. If our
new translation was accessible and promoted free to
all, i'm confident that it would go a long way in
bringing the entire Georgian people to the fold of
Islam. The Islam of the Georgians would be of great
benefit not only for themselves in the Hereafter,
insha'Allah, but it would undoubtedly help spread
peace in the region amongst the embattled Chechens,
Abkhazians and S. Ossetians - all of whom have the
non-Muslim Georgians periodically pitted against them.