What they said about Arabic From the author's own Arabic
“As for language, it is the image of the nation's existence, with its ideas, its meanings and the realities of its soul, a distinct existence standing on its own characteristics; it is the nationhood of thought.”
Mustafa Sadiq al-Rafi'i
d. 1356 AH / 1937 CE
Egyptian man of letters, master of modern Arabic prose
The Arabic original
أَمَّا اللُّغَةُ فَهْي صُورَةُ وُجُودِ الأمَّةِ بِأَفْكَارِهَا وَمَعَانِيهَا وَحَقَائِقِ نُفُوسِهَا، وُجُوداً مُتَمَيِّزاً قَائِماً بِخَصَائِصِه؛ فَهْيَ قَوْمِيَّةُ الفِكْر
Source
al-Rafi'i, Wahy al-Qalam, Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, 2000, vol. 3, p. 26
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
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