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One of the great purpose of life of parents is to give us the right religious and spiritual education. To accomplish that we need to read Quran and understand it. That's why they've been recommending me Dr Hamidullah's french translation, as i told them that urdu translation was very tough for me to understand... Oh My !  So Today is the day of glory because I found a site proposing the orignal version of  his translation. I don't know why the Saudi King's association have made since some modification to the original version and it's hard to find the old version. It's a similar battele to get the old testament...haha Here  is link if you are intrested.  The guy Mohammad Hamidullah was born on February the19th, 1908 in Hydarabad, in the state of Andhra Pardesh in the southern India. He died on Dec, 17th, 2002 in Jacksonvill in Florida. He was an scholar, theologian,and muslim researcher, with a degree in Internation Muslim Law and got a doctorate i...

All rights reserved by TED. 0:11 You may have heard   about the Koran's idea of paradise   being 72 virgins,   and I promise I will come back to those virgins.   But in fact, here in the northwest,   we're living very close   to the real Koranic idea of paradise,   defined 36 times   as "gardens watered by running streams."   Since I live on a houseboat on the running stream of Lake Union,   this makes perfect sense to me.   But the thing is, how come it's news to most people?   I know many well-intentioned non-Muslims   who've begun reading the Koran, but given up, disconcerted by its "otherness."   The historian Thomas Carlyle   considered Muhammad one of the world's greatest heroes,   yet even he called the Koran   "as toilsome reading as I ever undertook,   a wearisome, confused jumble." 1:04 (Laughter) 1:06 Part of the problem, I think,   is that we imagine that the Koran ca...