Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/national/89310450/Taranakis-first-Muslim-exhibition-features-Koran-in-Maori
Taranaki’s first Muslim exhibition features Koran in Maori
JANE MATTHEWS | Last updated 16:20 11/02/2017
ANDY JACKSON/Fairfax NZ: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s motto is ‘love for all hate for none’.
One of the first steps a group of Muslims took when they decided to come to New Zealand was translate their holy Koran into Maori.
“It was very important for us because we were coming into a new environment here and basically the best thing you can do is start looking at integration and a way to do it, so that’s what we did,” the National President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Bashir Khan said.
“There was a lot of concern about Maori being a dying language, so from our point of view, as a community, because it is translated in this holy book, that language is now preserved forever.”
Today, the full Koran is translated into more than 45 different languages, with many more unfinished versions too.
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