What they said about Arabic From the author's own Arabic
“Once God had sent the best of His messengers from among the Arabs and sent down to him the last of His books in the tongue of the Arabs, it became an obligation on people to learn the tongue of the Arabs, even if a communal one, so that they might understand from God His command and prohibition, His promise and warning, and grasp from His Messenger his explanation and his conveying of the message.”
al-Bayhaqi
d. 458 AH / 1066 CE
Abu Bakr al-Bayhaqi, hadith scholar and Shafi'i jurist
The Arabic original
بَعْدَ أَنْ بَعَثَ اللَّهُ أَفْضَلَ رُسُلِهِ مِنَ العَرَبِ وَأَنْزَلَ عَلَيْهِ آخِرَ كُتُبِهِ بِلِسانِ العَرَبِ فَصارَ عَلَى النّاسِ فَرْضاً أَنْ يَتَعَلَّمُوا لِسانَ العَرَبِ وَإِنْ كانَ ذَلِكَ مِنْ فُرُوضِ الكِفايَةِ لِيَعْقِلُوا عَنِ اللَّهِ أَمْرَهُ وَنَهْيَهُ وَوَعْدَهُ وَوَعِيدَهُ، وَيَفْهَمُوا عَنْ رَسُولِهِ - ﷺ - بَيانَهُ وَتَبْلِيغَهُ
Source
al-Bayhaqi, Shu'ab al-Iman, ed. 'Abd al-'Ali Hamid, Maktabat al-Rushd, Riyadh, 2003, vol. 3, p. 163
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
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