RODWELL'İN İTİRAFLARI
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
MÜSTEŞRİK RODWELL
1808 yılında İngiltere’de doğdu. Cambridge Üniversitesi Gonvile&Caius Kolejinde öğrenim gördü. Burayı bitirdikten sonra 1831 yılında papaz oldu. Ardından 1836 yılında, Londra’daki Saffron Hill Kilisesine papaz olarak tayin edildi. Çeşitli Kiliselerde konferanslar verdi. 35 sene görev yaptıktan sonra piskopos olarak emekli oldu. Genç yaşlarda İbranice öğrenen ve okumaya başlayan Rodwell, oryantalizm çalışmalarını başlatan kişi olarak bilinmektedir. Rodwell Arapçanın temel ilkelerini öğrenmiş, Arapça-İngilizce Sözlüğün yazarı Joseph Catafago’dan büyük destek görmüştür. 1861 yılında yayınladığı Kur’ân’ın İngilizce tercümesi bulunmaktadır.
Kur'an âyetlerini nüzul tarihine göre tercüme ve tertib eden İngiltere'nin en mutaassıb papazlarından Rodwell, şu hakikatları itiraf ediyor:
İlgili yazının orjinal metni;
It must be acknowledged, too, that the Koran deserves the highest praise for its conceptions of the Divine nature, in reference to the attributes of Power, Knowledge, and universal Providence and Unity—that its belief and trust in the One God of Heaven and Earth is deep and fervent—and that, though it contains fantastic visions and legends, teaches a childish ceremonial, and justifies bloodshedding, persecution, slavery, and polygamy, yet that at the same time it embodies much of a noble and deep moral earnestness, and sententious oracular wisdom, and has proved that there are elements in it on which mighty nations, and conquering—though not, perhaps, durable—empires can be built up. It is due to the Koran, that the occupants in the sixth century of an arid peninsula, whose poverty was only equalled by their ignorance, become not only the fervent and sincere votaries of a new creed, but, like Amru and many more, its warlike propagators. Impelled possibly by drought and famine, actuated partly by desire of conquest, partly by religious convictions, they had conquered Persia in the seventh century, the northern coasts of Africa, and a large portion of Spain in the eighth, the Punjaub and nearly the whole of India in the ninth. The simple shepherds and wandering Bedouins of Arabia, are transformed, as if by a magician's wand, into the founders of empires, the builders of cities, the collectors of more libraries than they at first destroyed, while cities like Fostât, Baghdad, Cordova, and Delhi, attest the power at which Christian Europe trembled.
John Medows Rodwell, The Koran Translated from the Arabic, s.15
"Rev. John Medows Rodwell (1808-1900) | The Letter"
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