The Qur'an has been translated into most major African, Asian and European languages from Arabic.[1] One of the biggest difficulties in understanding the Quran for those who do not know its language may be shifts in linguistic usage over the centuries. Studies involving understanding, interpreting and translating the Quran can contain individual tendencies, reflections and even distortions[2][3] caused by the region, sect,[4] education, religious ideology[5] and knowledge of the people who made them. These distortions can manifest themselves in many areas of belief and practices.
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^There are occasional misinterpretations, mistranslations, and even distortions. Translating the meanings of the Holy Quran has always been challenging for translators, as the Quran has an exoteric and an esoteric meaning. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED613311.pdf
^Therefore, it can be noted that the ideology of religion, attitude, and social context of the translators, as well as the involvement of the state, might affect the translation of the Holy Qur’an into various target languages. Gunawan, F. (2022). The ideology of translators in Quranic translation: lessons learned from Indonesia. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2022.2088438
