What they said about Arabic From the author's own Arabic
“The good way is to make addressing one another in Arabic a habit, so that children absorb it in the schools and at home; then the emblem of Islam and its people becomes manifest, and it is easier for Muslims to understand the meanings of the Book, the Sunna and the words of the forebears.”
Ibn Taymiyya
d. 728 AH / 1328 CE
Taqi al-Din Ahmad ibn Taymiyya, Hanbali jurist and theologian
The Arabic original
وَإِنَّما الطَّرِيقُ الحَسَنُ اعْتِيادُ الخِطابِ بِالعَرَبِيَّةِ، حَتَّى يَتَلَقَّنَها الصِّغارُ فِي المَكاتِبِ وَفِي الدُّورِ فَيَظْهَرَ شِعارُ الإِسْلامِ وَأَهْلِهِ، وَيَكُونَ ذَلِكَ أَسْهَلَ عَلَى أَهْلِ الإِسْلامِ فِي فِقْهِ مَعانِي الكِتابِ وَالسُّنَّةِ وَكَلامِ السَّلَفِ
Source
Ibn Taymiyya, Iqtida' al-Sirat al-Mustaqim, ed. al-'Aql, 7th ed. 1999, vol. 1, p. 526
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
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