What they said about Arabic From the author's own Arabic
On «the sciences of the Arabic language»:
“Its pillars are four: lexicography, grammar, rhetoric and literature. Knowing them is necessary for the scholars of the religious law, since all legal rulings are taken from the Book and the Sunna, and these are in the language of the Arabs.”
Ibn Khaldun
d. 808 AH / 1406 CE
'Abd al-Rahman ibn Khaldun, historian, author of the Muqaddima
The Arabic original
أَرْكانُهُ أَرْبَعَةٌ، وَهِيَ اللُّغَةُ وَالنَّحْوُ وَالبَيانُ وَالأَدَبُ، وَمَعْرِفَتُها ضَرُورِيَّةٌ عَلَى أَهْلِ الشَّرِيعَةِ، إِذْ مَأْخَذُ الأَحْكامِ الشَّرْعِيَّةِ كُلِّها مِنَ الكِتابِ وَالسُّنَّةِ، وَهِيَ بِلُغَةِ العَرَبِ
Source
Ibn Khaldun, Tarikh (al-Muqaddima), ed. Khalil Shihada, Dar al-Fikr, Beirut, 1981, vol. 1, p. 753, section 'The sciences of the Arabic language'
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
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