Can you translate this weird email???

Bump in the night | March 15, 2002 | Bump in the night

[Bump in the night]

It all started a while back when I received a request from someone asking permission to be added to my MSN Instant Messenger. I sent him an email asking him if I new him and if not, why he wanted to add me to his instant messenger list. He replied. He said that he had seen my email address and liked the name. He was looking for friends and thought he would try me. He also said he was from Pakistan.

I nicely replied and said that I do not add people to my MSN Messenger that I do not know.

Now, I receive e-mails from him from time to time. The emails seem to all be religious in nature (Islamic). (I don't usually read them but just delete them.)

Now, his friends are sending me emails. I don't mind to much, as they just go into my junk mail file and I delete them. But I received the following one the other day and it is written in some other language. I have gone all over the internet trying to translate it, but to no avail. I just think it's weird getting an email in some other language from someone who normally sends emails in English. Can anyone translate this?

It is titled, "Special Message", and it is from someone by the name of "khurram aslam". I'd appreciate any help.

Madina mein ek shakhs ne khuwab mein dekha ke PROPHET(MPBUH)ne farmaya " meri ummat se kaho ke quran pak ki tilawat karo, namaz parha karo aur mera yeh peghaam har jaga pohncha do" jis shakhs ko bhi yeh peghaam miley ussey chahiyeh ke 7 martaba is ko taqseem kare. Theek 10 din baad iske ghar mein khushhaali aayegi. aur agar taqeem na kare to 10 din baad gham aayega".

[Bump in the night]

Any idea what this says?

[Tennessee_Bob]

"The Prophet sent me this e-mail to test a new e-mail tracking program he has developed. Please forward this e-mail to as many people as you know, for each person you forward to, you will receive a gift, for each person that forwards on from there, you will each receive a gift.

Do this immediately or bad luck shall befall you. Abdullah Lars didn't send it immediately and was struck down a short time later by a cluster bomb that killed him, and wounded nine sheep."

[Joe 6-pack]

As I do with most spam, send them a reasonably worded, courteous, polite response, insisting that they send you no more email. If you subsequently receive a second email from the same address, respond to that with the most bitter, foul, paranoid response you can come up with at the time (if you need help with the verbiage, FReemail me.) Under most statutes this will demonstrate a pattern of harassment on the part of the spammer, who, "insists," on contacting you despite your polite protestations, and whose, "repeated," contacts have caused you fear or intimidation. Under most state stalking or harassment laws, that is enough to prosecute, or at least, prompt a criminal investigation. This response will generally stop spamming businesses dead in their tracks as any further contact results in tremendous liability on their part...anyone who insists on repeated attempts at contact with you after the above two responses, will generally provide probable cause for investigation in most jurisdictions with mature stalking/ harassment laws.

[mamelukesabre]

My guess is that he is quoting the quran. mpbuh is another name for mohamed, I beleive. I know I have seen that name before. You will not be able to find a translator because arabic is not in the latin alphabet. He made up the spellings for these words himself. They are approximations. You will have to find someone that speaks arabic and see if they can decipher his phonetic spellings of arabic words.

Of course, we don't even know for sure if this is even arabic. It could be some other language. I don't see any way to know for sure what language it is.

[mamelukesabre]

How the heck did you do that???

[Cicero]

If you use Outlook Express or a similar program, you can easily block the sender's address.

[Joe 6-pack]

"If you use Outlook Express or a similar program, you can easily block the sender's address."

And where is the fun in that?!?!?!!?

[roachie]

that looks almost like HipSpew (it's something that occurs on Usenet but sometimes it infiltrates into an email) HipSpew is basically a bunch of random letters that appear to be words to wreck havoc and be an annoyance and in usenet, to up the post counts on particular groups targetted

[Tennessee_Bob]

MPBUH is shorthand for "May Praise Be Upon Him." It's used when referring to the prophet Mohammed.

[Mr. K]

it says: "Islam is the religion of Peace (tm) All your sheep are belong to us (and possibly your goat if we are really lonely) The PROPHET set us up the bomb. Make your peace."

[xm177e2]

PROPHET(MPBUH)

That's the Prophet Mohammed, PBUH is "Peace be Upon Him," it might be MPBUH in another language...

[Tennessee_Bob]

I don't think it's HipSpew. It looks somewhat Dutch or Afrikaans in places, but I think a previous poster was right in thinking that it's phoneticized Arabic or some middle-eastern language.

[Jen]

HAHAHAHA! That's good.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Peace, not praise...my bad in #10. Thanks for the correction.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Well, sometimes I come up with a good one. :)

[xm177e2]

You're right about the "may," though...

[Drango]

It says:

May the PROPHET be with you and yours. May you always be safe and may the rains be plentiful. May danger be far from your door.
Trust in him and always follow the laws and you will have peace. Treat others well. A moose bit my sister and he became as unto cheese. The PROPHET says so and woe unto any non-believers.

[pax_et_bonum]

The literal translation is:

"May the fleas of a thousand camels find your tent."

[NH Liberty]

Did you check for an Urdu translator? I am not sure if the mail is written in Urdu, but if he is from Pakistan, there is a chance that it is.

I have a friend who speaks a little Urdu who might be able to translate it if nothing else works. However, she lives in Hong Kong, and I believe she is on vacation at the moment.

Let me know how you make out.