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**astefecyAvevy** · 09-03-2012, 11:21 PM

Not really, the translation of the Qur'an is relatively short. You could read it multiple times in a single day if you wanted to (not that this is necessarily a good way to read it).

I do not know many people who would have time to read a 500-1000 page book multiple times in a single day.

Let's see..... I pulled out my "shortest" English translation of approx. 435 pages, and I counted an approximate average number of words per page (400), so that makes a total approximate number of words at 174,000 words. On average, most adults read 250-300 words per minute. So, 174,000 divided by 250 equals 696 minutes or 11.6 hours. Given that the typical day has only 24 hours, minus time for eating (3), prayer (1), sleep (8), and other unmentionables (1), brings the number of hours down to approximately 11 hours......

So, the average individual could read an English translation of the Qur'an approximately one full time through in a single day.

I am now wondering if other English translations have less words and are faster reads. I do realize that some translators are more concise with words than others.

09-03-2012, 11:21 PM	#12
astefecyAvevy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 531 Senior Member	Not really, the translation of the Qur'an is relatively short. You could read it multiple times in a single day if you wanted to (not that this is necessarily a good way to read it). I do not know many people who would have time to read a 500-1000 page book multiple times in a single day. Let's see..... I pulled out my "shortest" English translation of approx. 435 pages, and I counted an approximate average number of words per page (400), so that makes a total approximate number of words at 174,000 words. On average, most adults read 250-300 words per minute. So, 174,000 divided by 250 equals 696 minutes or 11.6 hours. Given that the typical day has only 24 hours, minus time for eating (3), prayer (1), sleep (8), and other unmentionables (1), brings the number of hours down to approximately 11 hours...... So, the average individual could read an English translation of the Qur'an approximately one full time through in a single day. I am now wondering if other English translations have less words and are faster reads. I do realize that some translators are more concise with words than others.
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