Sadr-ud-Din (Lahore Ahmadiyya leader)

Maulana Sadr -ud- Din ( † 15 November 1981) served as the first missionary of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Islamic denomination Ischa'at -i -Islam as an imam in the mosque in Berlin Wilmersdorf since 1922. Previously, he also served as imam in the Shah- Jahan Mosque in Woking. He put 1939 before the first German translation of the Qur'an from the Muslim spring. From October 13 1951 to November 15, 1981, he was the global chairman of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman -i -Islam Lahore Ischat ( AAIIL ).

Quran translation

The translation of the Qur'an created Sadr -ud -Din in close cooperation with the doctorate at the University of Berlin Abdus Hassan Mansur. The permanent Imam of the Berlin Mosque S. Mohammad Abdullah and his deputy Nazir -ul -Islam took over the correction. Another employee, Hamid ( Hugo) Marcus, who was instrumental in the linguistic structure of the German text and the commentary should have been (ie, because of his Jewish origin) not mentioned in the acknowledgments of the translation for political reasons. Hamid Marcus was president of the " Islamic Community of Berlin eV " on 22 March 1930 as the successor to the established " German - Muslim society". The actual translation work was largely completed in February 1934. The largest part of the first edition was destroyed by fire during a bombing raid on Berlin. The Quran translation in 1964 unchanged reissued. She could not free himself from 1954, published by the AMJ translation.

For the translation says Mohammed Aman Hobohm: " From the fact that Maulana Sadr -ud -Din insufficiently German and Dr. Hamid Marcus spoke no Arabic, numerous inaccuracies resulted in the translation. In addition, the comment with Ahmadiyya thought is penetrated, and that the Arabic text has numerous typographical errors. ". He himself later abandoned because he recognized that " can not transfer the Holy text are the original Arabic justice in a different language " A sample taken from him in attack revision.

Works

• The Koran. Arabic German. Translation, introduction and explanation by Maulana Sadr -ud -Din; Publisher of the Muslim Revue ( self print ); Berlin, 1939; 2nd unchanged edition 1964 PDF; 3 unchanged edition 2006; without an ISBN.