What they said about Arabic From the author's own Arabic
In the introduction to al-Mufradat:
“The words of the Qur’an are the kernel and cream of the speech of the Arabs, its centrepiece and its treasures; on them the jurists and the wise rely in their rulings and their wisdom, and to them the skilled poets and orators turn in their verse and their prose.”
al-Raghib al-Isfahani
d. 502 AH / 1108 CE
al-Husayn ibn Muhammad, author of al-Mufradat, a dictionary of the Qur’an’s vocabulary.
The Arabic original
فَأَلْفاظُ القُرْآنِ هِيَ لُبُّ كَلامِ العَرَبِ وَزُبْدَتُهُ، وَواسِطَتُهُ وَكَرائِمُهُ، وَعَلَيْها اعْتِمادُ الفُقَهاءِ وَالحُكَماءِ فِي أَحْكامِهِمْ وَحِكَمِهِمْ، وَإِلَيْها مَفْزَعُ حُذّاقِ الشُّعَراءِ وَالبُلَغاءِ فِي نَظْمِهِمْ وَنَثْرِهِمْ.
Source
al-Raghib al-Isfahani, al-Mufradat fi gharib al-Qurʾan, ed. Safwan ʿAdnan Dawudi, Damascus–Beirut: Dar al-Qalam, 1st ed., 1412 AH, p. 55
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
Quoted by al-Suyuti in al-Muzhir 1:160.
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