"Perhaps the differences are discoverable and it is possible to imagine contexts different from one’s own, but only by such hard work that although one can continue to improve one’s translation, a perfect translation is out of the question…to translate from one time and place to another requires more than a good grammar book and a good dictionary…
Sayyed Ali! You are a scholar…there is not love more difficult than the love that calls us to be truly faithful to learning, it makes us learn what even the unpleasant parts of the text say in order to learn the text whole.”
From The Mantle of the Prophet by Roy Mottahedeh