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What if I only know English, can I help? Definitely, you can review the translations, correct the typos, improve the text and style.
We have 20 episodes, in average each episode is made of five parts. If translating one parts takes 30 minutes; this means we are looking at a 50 hour project. Participate with whatever you can.
(Do not be ashamed of giving little, because nothing is even smaller than the little) -- Imam Ali Ibn Abi Taleb (AS).
Project Description
This wiki is dedicated to an open project for translating the academic research that Ayatu’llah Sayed Kamal Alhaydari presented over more than three months on Al Kawtar Satellite TV.
For several years now Ayatu’llah Sayed Alhaydari have been appearing on the Arabic Language Al Kawtar TV channel, and he had been phenomenal in explaining the difference between the main three Islamic School of Thoughts: Salafi Islam, Suni Islam and Shia Islam. He did the research while referencing the most reputable books of each school of thought.
One of the most important subjects that were discussed is the monotheism (Attawhid) in the Salafi School, and the comparision with the monotheism of the Imam Ali Ibn Abi Taleb (PBUH). This careful and scientific study has shown that Ibn Taymeyya and his followers has opted for a God that is limited, fills a space, can be pointed at in the upward direction, has a hand, a face, a leg, he sits, he laughs, he moves, etc. In fact Ibn Taymeyya goes even further by considering that anyone who does not believe that Allah is limited is a unbeliever (FATWA of Cheikh Ibn Baz).
These seminars had created an intellectual revolution in the Arab world. Many renowned Salafi Cheikhs had abandoned Salafism because of these seminars. Because of the high importance of these seminars, we would like to share them with the non-Arabic speakers. To translate the transcripts of these seminars, we created this open project à la Wikipedia to get voluntary help from all over the world. This will be a collaboration effort, initially to translate from Arabic to English; later on we will open the project to more language translations. Therefore we are calling on all that are capable of translating religious and historical text from Arabic to English to give us a hand for this noble task.
Here is the project plan:
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This is the phase of gathering the Arabic transcripts for every episode. Thanks to the administration team of Sayed Kamal Al Hadari's site, this has been done as you can see from the left menu. There may be some more transcripts coming, we will put them as they become available on the site. Also the video clips for episodes 1-15 have been linked to YouTube. The rest will be linked as soon as they become available. Thanks to "Al Ghadeer room" on PalTalk and to aNaKuWaiTy and Mohammed14M. Status: 80% Done . |
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This is the translation phase. This is the task that we need as much help as we can. If 500 volunteers, for instance, translates 2 paragrahs each, that would be more than enough. Visit the instructions page to learn how you can help. Status: 0% Done . |
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This is the dubbing/subtitling phase. This is a technical task that requires professional help. The initial plan is to hire a professional video editing company, unless some professional video editors can volunteer to help us with this effort. Otherwise we are planning to raise a capital to pay for video dubbing/subtitling. Status: 0% Done . |
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This is the distribution phase. We are planning to distribute to TV channels around the world with a nominal fees to cover the expenses. TV channels such as: Ahlulbayt TV, Salaam TV, Wilayat TV, AL Anwar TV, Al Maarif TV, etc. We are also planning to raise money to buy air time on Telstar satellite to broadcast to north american audience. Status: 0% Done . |
Project Team: World Population. Project's Start Time: January 1, 2011. Project's End Time: June 30, 2011.
