Problems of Translating Imperative Mood in the Glorious Qur’an into English
University Putra Malaysia
ABSTRACT
Much ink has been spilt on the study of imperative mood in Arabic. However, to the best of our knowledge, no study has been conducted about the translation of imperative mood in the Glorious Qur'an into English. This study comes to a bridge that gap. Throughout this paper, study sheds light on the problems of translating imperative mood in the Glorious Qur'an into English. The study hypothesizes that the difficulty of translating the imperative mood into English arises from the fact that there is no one to one correspondence between the form and function of the imperative mood in the Qurān. To put it more precisely, misunderstanding the real function of the imperative verb leads to inaccurate translation. Consequently there will be confusion between what obligatory duty is and what is recommendable or apprehensive from the juristic perspective. In order to convey the functions of imperative mood into English via using communicative theory of Newmark in translation. The study will end by giving some recommendations and proposing some suggestion for further studies.
KEYWORDS
Mood (M), Imperative Mood (IM), Communicative Translation (CT) and Semantic Translation (SM).