format_quote Originally Posted by
doorster
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I have to agree with chacha, because if I know what I intend to say and know the meanings of the words I am saying, then accent/dialect/missing or replaced sounds do not matter one little bit.
likewise if I say to some one to go feed the kalb they will have sense enough to go feed the dog and not start doin a chest operation.
there are many non-arab scholars, teachers and speakers whose native languges just do not have enough sounds (you should hear shaikh estes doing tilawat)
I have been abused by many wannabe scholars who have delusions of being linguists for using z in Azan, Ramzaan etc. but I do not care as long as I know what I am saying, the listener understands what I am saying
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Wa Alaykum Salam Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh,
Of course people should not be abusing you, nor others for making what they may think is a mistake and maybe their abuse has made you more firm upon this decision. But I think we should care about how we speak. I am not saying that it is our fault (I say our fault because even I do not speak Arabic and I am learning the proper pronounciation), but I am saying that we should try to better our pronounciation as much as possible, even if we know what we are saying. Why? Because then we will pronounce the words of God properly, we will not change the words of God in our recitation like some do, even the marks in the Qur'an, like the fatha kasra and dammah came about because people mispronounced things, and so instead of reading
Allah and His Messenger have broken ties with the Mushrikeen, one read
Allah has broken ties with the Mushrikeen and His Messenger.
Anyhow, I think it is important to try and perfect our recitation, I am not saying people who find it hard to pronounce arabic letters should be abused or laughed at, just like I dont think a person who cannot stand for prayer should be ridiculed, but we should all try our best,
but if it was not important the scholars would not have the science of Tajweed.
And I pray that Allah, the Mighty and Al Knowing, makes me efficient in Arabic and Reading Qur'an, and peace and blessings be upon His messenger.