What they said about Arabic From the author's own Arabic
“The religious law is Arabic; and since it is Arabic, no one understands it as it should be understood except one who understands the Arabic language as it should be understood.”
al-Shatibi
d. 790 AH / 1388 CE
Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi, Andalusian Maliki legal theorist, author of al-Muwafaqat
The Arabic original
إِنَّ الشَّرِيعَةَ عَرَبِيَّةٌ وَإِذَا كَانَتْ عَرَبِيَّةً فَلَا يَفْهَمُهَا حَقَّ الْفَهْمِ إِلَّا مَنْ فَهِمَ اللُّغَةَ الْعَرَبِيَّةَ حَقَّ الْفَهْمِ
Source
al-Shatibi, al-Muwafaqat, ed. Mashhur Hasan Al Salman, Dar Ibn 'Affan, 1997, vol. 5, p. 53
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
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