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No. A translation of the Qur'an is not the Qur'an. It is a translation of the Qur'an's meaning. The Qur'an was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) in Arabic, and it calls itself an Arabic Qur'an again and again. Its words are the words of God (﷾), and no one may add a word or take one away. A translator can only give his own understanding of those words in another language. That is why translations differ from one another, while all of them point back to one Arabic original. It is also why Muslims recite the Qur'an in Arabic, and many learn all of it by heart. The original is not lost or hidden. Arabic is a living language of hundreds of millions of people, and it is taught all over the world. So Islam encourages every Muslim to learn Arabic and read the Qur'an for himself.

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