My Arabic's reduced by now to wielding a dictionary, so I took four well-known translations and decided to read them side-by-side, along with a transliteration and the original seventh-century Arabic.
我的阿拉伯语已经退化到 要靠翻字典才能过活的地步， 所以我找了四本著名的译本， 决定把它们并排并放一起读， 一行一行地读， 同时参考一本音译本和 一本七世纪阿拉伯语的原版。