Arabic is for you too.
Abdullah b. Zayd Al-Numayri reports that Al-Hasan Al-Basra said:
They (the heretics) were destroyed by their inability in Arabic (al-’ujmah).
Al-Bukhari, Al-Tarikh al-Kabir Vol.5 p99.
And Imam ash-Shafi’i said:
People didn’t become ignorant and didn’t differ amongst themselves except because they left Arabic and leaned towards the language of Aristotle.
Quoted by Al-Suyuti in Sawn Al-Mantiq p15.He said on p22:
I have found Salaf before Al- Shafi’i indicate what he did:
That the cause of heresy (al-ibtida’) is ignorance of Arabic language.
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