Re: First Language Ever Spoken on This Earth
I would be interested in the reference of this hadees. But even without any reference, this hadees looks unauthentic. Because it is asking people to “Love Arabs” when everyone around him was Arab themselves. It makes no sense to ask, for example, a Pakistani to love Pakistanis.
No where in Quran does Allah say that Arabic has any special privilege over any other language. Quran talks of it being in Arabic but the reason given is that it is for making the local people understand the message.
And the reason we recite dua and namaz in Arabic is that we want to keep the ORIGINAL words, which happen to be in Arabic, so that the message is not lost in translation. Arabic is not used because it has any superiority over others.
In other words, Arabic is the language of Islam because the Prophet happened to speak Arabic.