Untranslatability of the Holy Quran: Analytical Perspective with Reference to Four English Translations

The central demand elevated in this article is: Is it possible to translate the ‘genre’ of Quran? This article tried to involve some syntactic, semantic, cultural as well as stylistic difficulties and supports the argument with samples of verses from the Quran along with exegesis. However, evaluation and examination of data were based on the following four translations of the Holy Quran: The Koran Interpreted, by A. J. Arberry, The Koran by N. J. Dawood, Interpretation of the Meanings of the Noble Quran by Al-Hilali and Khan, and The Meaning of the Holy Quran by Ali. Approximately reliable Quranic exegeses are referring to in addition to some well-known and significant dictionaries to discover the translator’s necessity to depend upon such explanations when translating the Holy Quran. One leading conclusion made in this investigation is that the job of translating the meaning of Quran cannot be correctly carried out by translators on single basis; reasonably, it must be institutionalized. The study concluded that the Quran translators, associated to other literary genres, face lots of complications in decoding the Quranic source text message. The translations of the Holy Quran were unsuccessful to its originality and the connotative shades of meanings of the unique expression