What they said about Arabic From the author's own Arabic
“The excellence of the Qur'an is known only to one who has studied much, whose learning is broad, and who understands the ways of the Arabs, their versatility in modes of expression, and what God singled out their language for above all other languages.”
Ibn Qutayba
d. 276 AH / 889 CE
'Abd Allah ibn Muslim al-Dinawari, man of letters, philologist and exegete
The Arabic original
وَإِنَّما يَعْرِفُ فَضْلَ القُرْآنِ مَنْ كَثُرَ نَظَرُهُ، وَاتَّسَعَ عِلْمُهُ، وَفَهِمَ مَذاهِبَ العَرَبِ وَافْتِنانَها فِي الأَسالِيبِ، وَما خَصَّ اللَّهُ بِهِ لُغَتَها دُونَ جَمِيعِ اللُّغاتِ
Source
Ibn Qutayba, Ta'wil Mushkil al-Qur'an, ed. Ibrahim Shams al-Din, Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, p. 17
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
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