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“I praise God for making me one of the scholars of Arabic and for disposing me by nature to zeal and partisanship for the Arabs.”

al-Zamakhshari
d. 538 AH / 1144 CE
Jar Allah Mahmud al-Zamakhshari, exegete and grammarian, author of al-Kashshaf

The Arabic original

اللَّهَ أَحْمَدُ عَلَى أَنْ جَعَلَنِي مِنْ عُلَماءِ العَرَبِيَّةِ وَجَبَلَنِي عَلَى الغَضَبِ لِلعَرَبِ وَالعَصَبِيَّةِ

Source

al-Zamakhshari, al-Mufassal fi San'at al-I'rab, ed. 'Ali Bu Mulhim, Maktabat al-Hilal, Beirut, 1993, p. 17
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.

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