Examining the Disregard for the Semantic Relationship of the Terms "Asatir al-Awwalin " and "Ommi" in the Persian Translations of the Holy Qur'an

Paying attention to the semantic relationship of vocabularies with each other has a great influence on the accuracy of the translation, but most of the translations have given incorrect equivalents for Asatir al-Awwalin and Ommi due to ignoring this point. Asatir al-Awwalin, i.e. reciting the divine word by pagans, has been condemned in nine verses of the holy Qur'an. On the other hand, the illiteracy of the prophet of Islam as the source of Divine Word is also targeted by orientalists. Despite many studies that have been carried out on these two terms independently, from the viewpoint of the experts in this field, the semantic and purposeful relation of these words with each other are disregarded. The simultaneous examination of these two words is necessary because it is precisely in response to the doubt about the Qur'an's adoption from the Testaments. Using a descriptive-analytical method, this paper firstly investigated the different meanings of each of these two words from the viewpoint of lexicographers, translators and commentators; then, while criticizing the wrong views, the correct meaning of the word was analyzed, and their semantic relation was studied in the Quran. Finally, some of the Persian translations of the holy Qur'an were evaluated in terms of accuracy in the way in which semantic equivalents were selected, as well as the level of reflection of the semantic relation between the two terms mentioned in the translation. During the study, it became clear that most of the translations did not succeed much neither in finding exact equivalences nor in reflecting the semantic relationship between two words.