The Cairo Gyro

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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.

Comments

  1. May 23rd, 2008 | 2:21 pm

    assalamu alaikum,

    if you won’t mind, i’m going to put these arabic statements on my blog as well…

    jazak’Allahkhair,
    from one fajr student to another

  2. May 23rd, 2008 | 2:43 pm

    Wa `alaykum assalaam,

    Please go ahead and post it. I cleaned it up because I think the text was initially jumbled up when I first posted it.

    May Allah reward you for the beneficial things you’ve posted on your blog, ameen.

  3. April 23rd, 2009 | 11:50 pm

    jazaakillaahu khayran

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