First Language Ever Spoken on This Earth

muqawwee123 · April 21, 2013, 7:07am

Re: First Language Ever Spoken on This Earth

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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.

Agree, even in Quran there are verses which deal with the criticism brought forwarded by Kuffar e Makkah, etc that why Quran was not revealed in a language other than Arabic. It is then said in Quran that if it was revealed in other language, people would have said ’ why the Quran is in another language, when the Prophet is an Arab’.

Moreover, the hadees quoted by TLK also contradict with the basic teaching of Quran (read Sura e Hujraat about why there are different tribes i.e. just for identity purposes and better amongst you is the one whose actions are better). Moreover, in khutba e Hajjat ul wida, the Prophet himself declared ‘There is no preference of Arabs over non-Arabs and vice verse’. In Sura e Fatir, where difference of languages is mentioned in the words **‘and the difference of your languages and colors. Verily, in that are indeed signs for men of sound knowledge’ **, it is not mentioned superiority of Arabic over other languages.

Quran does mention superiority of language and message of Quran and invites non-Muslim to present single verse like Quran, but it is just to prove that the revelation is divine.