What they said about Arabic Via a reliable witness
“The human organ of speech is a complete musical instrument, and no nation, ancient or modern, has used it to the full as well as the Arab nation has.”
'Abbas Mahmud al-'Aqqad
d. 1383 AH / 1964 CE
Egyptian writer and thinker
The Arabic original
إِنَّ جِهَازَ النُّطْقِ الإِنْسَانِيِّ أَدَاةٌ مُوسِيقِيَّةٌ وَافِيَةٌ لَمْ تُحْسِنِ اسْتِخْدَامَهَا عَلَى أَوْفَاهَا أُمَّةٌ مِنَ الأُمَمِ القَدِيمَةِ أَوِ الحَدِيثَةِ كَمَا اسْتَخْدَمَتْهَا الأمَّةُ العَرَبِيَّة
Source
al-'Aqqad, al-Lugha al-Sha'ira, al-Maktaba al-'Asriyya, p. 11; quoted in 'Adnan Zarzur, Madkhal ila Tafsir al-Qur'an, Dar al-Qalam, Damascus, 2nd ed. 1998, p. 12
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
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