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Every word of the translation answers an Arabic word

Confirmed principle 3 examples 1 min

In this translation, every word answers a word of the Arabic text. What the target language must add to be readable is placed in square brackets. A word with no Arabic equivalent and no brackets would be an interpretation slipped into the text: it has no place there.

Brackets show the reader where the text stops and where reading aid begins. When the companions of the garden set out "[deeming themselves] capable" (68:25), the text says only "capable"; the brackets indicate that their capability existed only in their minds. When people make the Agents "female beings" (43:19), the Arabic says only "female".

Conversely, one Arabic word does not receive two words. The word وحيدا is rendered by a single one: "the one I created alone" (74:11), not "alone and solitary".

This discipline has a consequence for the reader: what is not in brackets can be looked for in the Arabic text, word by word. Additions that answered nothing (an emphatic adverb, an explanatory complement, a title such as "Lord" instead of "Guardian") have been removed.

In the text

Example 68:25
وَغَدَوْا۟ عَلَىٰ حَرْدٍۢ قَٰدِرِينَ
“[deeming themselves] capable”
The text says "capable"; the brackets carry the reading.
Example 89:7
إِرَمَ ذَاتِ ٱلْعِمَادِ
“with Iram of the lofty pillars”
In French, the repeated preposition is a language addition, marked as such.
Example 74:11
ذَرْنِى وَمَنْ خَلَقْتُ وَحِيدًۭا
“the one I created alone”
One Arabic word, one word in the translation.