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Quran in Dogri<br />
Azra Choudhary, translating Quran in Dogri<br />
Azra replies with message of peace to a region<br />
where her mother-daughter suffers horrors of 1947<br />
By: Haroon Mirani<br />
In 2014 when Azra Choudhary, 62, former<br />
chief editor Dictionary section at Jammu<br />
Kashmir Academy of Art Culture and<br />
Languages (<strong>JK</strong>AACL) was approached by<br />
Rajouri based Shah Hamdan Trust to translate<br />
the Holy Quran in Dogri language, she was<br />
reluctant. It was a huge responsibility as she<br />
was not confident enough to accomplish it.<br />
Abdul Qayoom Nadvi, principal of a<br />
school in Rajouri, who had<br />
contacted Azra for the job, knew that<br />
if anybody could do justice with this<br />
work, it was Azra. Qayoom had once<br />
asked his wife Shamima who was<br />
working as Additional Secretary<br />
<strong>JK</strong>AACL too about the right person<br />
who can translate Quran in Dogri.<br />
Shamima without any hesitation<br />
said that Azra was the right person to<br />
do the job. Both Qayoom and<br />
Shamima are members of Shah<br />
Hamdan Society which is a religious<br />
and social work<br />
As Dogri was included in the eighth<br />
schedule and it had good number of<br />
speakers in Jammu and Himachal<br />
Pradesh, the society felt that it is the<br />
need of the hour to translate Quran in<br />
Dogri language so that its message<br />
of peace, love, brotherhood reaches<br />
a larger population. As of now Quran<br />
is translated in all major languages<br />
of the world numbering more than<br />
100 but Dogri translation was<br />
14<br />
May 2019
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