Why Not Whole Salah In One's Own Language
I think the spirit and originality of Salah and Quran will be dead if we pray and read it in our languages. Actual prayer and Quran should be ready in the original language it’s send, but Yes, the meaning should be well understood in one’s own mother language. For a muslim it should be compulsory to learn enough Arabic to understand Quran and read it in prayers. It’s a small thing to do for one’s religion. Saying Salah in one’s own language with passage of time will dilute and contaminate the original prayer. It’s been observed that ancient religions like Sanatan Dharam, Christianity, lost their authenticity of original message when majority of their followers forgot to read the original religious books. Wrong translation and false believes were interpolated, interjected by the few who became the custodian of those religions, the common public gets satisfied performing and reading the edited and falsified versions, with passage of time the common people even lossess the desire and will, to learn and understand the original language to follow the true correct religion. Sanskrit is almost dead, Aramaic is dead, so is Avesta the ancient Parsi language. In my humble opinion if any religion looses it’s original text language, the religion dies, 99% of Hindus can’t read and understand Sanskrit, from 1 Ishwara they have come down to millions, same with 99.9% Christians who can’t read understand Aramaic, and turned Christ into son of God, and 99.9% Parsi who can’t read Avestan and started worshipping the fire. If any religion is read in it’s original language, it helps keep both, the language and the message pure and alive. and