Why we must learn Arabic ?

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Salam,
It's about Arabic now. Hmm... It seems after a few years me from my SMKA (we learn Arabic in this school) school, my arabic knowledge is falling down. Eh, wait a minute... Why must I learn Arabic? My study course in university doesn't even need any Arab language or Arab speaking in it (I'm learning Networking System in English! I'm a Malay, writing in English, and need to learn arabic?). Well, if I want to answer this question, it's a very easy question for me indeed. I want to learn arabic because....

 

If the only reason for learning Arabic were to read the words of Allah in the Quran, that would be enough! Allah says:

إِنَّا أَنزَلْنَاهُ قُرْآنًا عَرَبِيًّا لَّعَلَّكُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ
"We have sent it down as an Arabic Quran, in order that you may learn wisdom" (Surah Yusuf, Aayah 2).

وَكَذَلِكَ أَوْحَيْنَا إِلَيْكَ قُرْآنًا عَرَبِيًّا لِّتُنذِرَ أُمَّ الْقُرَى وَمَنْ حَوْلَهَا وَتُنذِرَ يَوْمَ الْجَمْعِ
“And thus we sent to you an Arabic Qur’an so that you may warn the mother of towns and all around it” (Surah ash-Shura, 7).

Imagine that you received a letter from a beloved friend that you couldn’t read, and that if it were translated, the spirit of the words would be lost. You would desperately strive to learn the language, so that once you opened the letter again, there would be no one to read it before you. If that is how you would respond to the words of a friend, should this not also be your response to reading the words of Allah the Almighty? When he reveals the verses of the Quran, which are spoken by his majesty, are you still looking for a translation to inform your highness?

While the Prophet (peace be upon him) prayed in Mecca, Quraysh would mock him, curse him, beat him, and insult him. One day he was reciting the Quran with his companions around the Ka’bah reading Surah al-Najm, within earshot of Quraysh. They noticed the language was Arabic, but it was neither a poem or a story. They were puzzled about the beauty of the Quran until he (peace be upon him) reached the verse,

أَفَمِنْ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ تَعْجَبُونَ * وَتَضْحَكُونَ وَلَا تَبْكُونَ * وَأَنتُمْ سَامِدُونَ * فَاسْجُدُوا لِلَّهِ وَاعْبُدُوا
“Then at this statement do you wonder? And you laugh and do not weep? While you are proudly sporting? So prostrate to Allah and worship [Him]” (Surah Anajim 53:5962).

Because they were non-Muslims, they did not have to prostrate themselves when the Quran was being recited. However, the effect of the Quran forced them to honour it. They unanimously prostrated themselves except one, who then took some dust, rubbed it on his forehead and said: “That is enough for me.”

Remind yourself that learning Arabic unifies the Muslim nation, as those who speak the language can communicate with each other and above all with Allah the Great. When one of the companions of the Prophet (peace be upon him) made a mistake in the Arabic language, he said to the others, “Guide your friend because he has gone astray.”
Abu Bakr Asadeeq (may Allah be pleased with him) said, “That I recite and forget [a portion of the Quran] is more beloved to me than to make a grammatical mistake!”
Umar bin Kattab (may Allah be pleased with him) once passed by a group of archers who missed their targets. He admonished them and they responded that they were only beginners, but in answering back they made a grammatical mistake in their wording. He told them, “Indeed, your mistakes in Arabic grammar are more difficult to bear than your mistakes in archery!” He as well said, “Learn Arabicit will improve your morals.” When he became Khalifa, he wrote to Abo musa Al ashiri, saying, “Learn Arabicit’s from your religion.”
Ubay ibn Ka’b (may Allah be pleased with him) said, “Teach Arabic like you teach the memorisation of the Qur’an!”
Al Hassan Al basri (may Allah have mercy on his soul) was asked, “What do you think of people learning Arabic?” He said: “They are doing good by learning the language of their Prophet.”
Imam ash-Shaafi’ee (may Allah have mercy on his soul) said, "Therefore it is imperative that every Muslim should strive to learn Arabic as hard as he can, so that he can testify the shahada, and recite the Book of Allah and say the invocations that are mandatory upon him, such as the takbeer, tasbeeh, tashahud and other prayers. And the more he learns the language that Allah himself chose to be the language of him who sealed the Prophets (peace be upon him), and to be the language of his final revelation, the better it is for him!”

The Arabic language is different from any other language. Take, for example, the Middle English used by Shakespeare and modern English. They are almost two different languages, whilst Arabic has remained the same from before the time of the Prophet (peace be upon him) until today, and it will last until the last day, the same without changes.
Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) noticed on the tongues of some of the Arabs a slight change in dialect and ordered that the grammar rules of Arabic be recorded in a universal form. Allah promised to preserve the Quran in Arabic; he said:

إِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا الذِّكْرَ وَإِنَّا لَهُ لَحَافِظُونَ
“Indeed we have sent down the Reminder[the Quran] and surely we will preserve it” (Surah Hijr, Aayah 9).

This reflection raises a critical question: what happens to the Muslim nation if we don’t learn Arabic? Apparently, the modern method of colonization is by forming Western schools in the Arab world. As the lord Salsoubry said, “The missionary schools are the first step for colonization.” I’m one of the graduates of these schools; therefore, I speak from experience. The Arabic language in a Western school in an Arab country is considered to be a second-class language, which encourages the students to think that intellectual development and the Arabic language are mutually exclusive. Moreover, a historical fact is that the British schools were first established in Egypt in 1880, followed by the invasion in 1882. During the French occupation of Algeria, the French government was advised, “We will never be able to overpower the Algerians as long as they read the Qur’an and speak Arabic. Therefore we must remove the Arabic Qur’an from their midst and abolish the Arabic language from their tongues.” In addition, the secular leader of Turkey, Kamal Ataturk, who abolished the Islamic caliphate, ordered that the Qur’an be recited and prayers be spoken in Turkish, and changed the Turkish language, which used to be written in Arabic, into a Latin alphabet.

If that is the case then learning Arabic can preserve Islam from being misinterpreted, and the Muslim lands from being colonized!

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Abdullah Al Saleh
www.abdullahalsaleh.com

Haha. It just an answer that I copied from here, but I think it was a surely good answer. Just doesn't have enough time to typing my answer, LOL. :)

As a conclusion, let us motivate ourselves to learn arabic. Inshaallah.

"Adik-adikku, insyaAllah boleh!"