What they said about Arabic Via a reliable witness
“Learn Arabic, for it is part of your religion; and learn the laws of inheritance, for they are part of your religion.”
Umar ibn al-Khattab
d. 23 AH / 644 CE
The second Rightly Guided Caliph
The Arabic original
تَعَلَّمُوا العَرَبِيَّةَ فَإِنَّها مِنْ دِينِكُمْ، وَتَعَلَّمُوا الفَرائِضَ فَإِنَّها مِنْ دِينِكُمْ
Source
Cited without isnad by Ibn Taymiyya, Iqtida' al-Sirat al-Mustaqim, ed. al-'Aql, 7th ed., vol. 1, pp. 527-528
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
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