Message #194

[Zainab_M]

but of course everyone isn't the same.  most arabs are wonderful people, Alhamdulilah.

  rose

thanks for your comments.  yes, very true.  i've also found most arabic speaking persons to have a wonderful heart.  actually my post wasn't supposed to point at the arabs or any community in particular.  there are certain non-arabic speaking Muslims who also profess the same. 

what i meant was, that this is just a notion which some people have in mind.  they have this thoroughly incorrect idea that the Quraan was revealed in arabic perhaps becoz arabic is a superior language, so they consider that study of the Quraan and Islam in arabic gives more sawab (blessings).  No doubt arabic is a beautiful language.  Most importantly, no translations can take the place of the original arabic language of the Quraan, and those who are able to read and understand it in arabic can indeed enjoy it a lot more.  But the reason why Allah revealed the Quraan in arabic was not becoz arabic is a superior language, rather it was becoz Allah wanted to send a Scripture to the people of the Arabian peninsula.  these people had gone completely astray and were in need of guidance.  the Torah and Gospel had been altered by the people of the Book, and moreover, these former Scriptures were in a language which the arabs could not understand.  thus, it became necessary to reveal the final Scripture to the arabs in Arabic language.  The Quraan itself clarifies this point.  but unfortunately today most people are unable to grasp it and they cook up their own explanations which have no bearing with reality.