What they said about Arabic From the author's own Arabic
“The Arabic tongue is the emblem of Islam and its people, and languages are among the greatest distinctive marks of nations, by which they are told apart.”
Ibn Taymiyya
d. 728 AH / 1328 CE
Taqi al-Din Ahmad ibn Taymiyya, Hanbali jurist and theologian
The Arabic original
فَإِنَّ اللِّسانَ العَرَبِيَّ شِعارُ الإِسْلامِ وَأَهْلِهِ، وَاللُّغاتُ مِنْ أَعْظَمِ شَعائِرِ الأُمَمِ الَّتِي بِها يَتَمَيَّزُونَ
Source
Ibn Taymiyya, Iqtida' al-Sirat al-Mustaqim, ed. Nasir al-'Aql, Dar 'Alam al-Kutub, Beirut, 7th ed. 1999, vol. 1, p. 519
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
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