Learning and study
On Arabic Language
" The people studying the Arabic language looked at Al-Qurʾān, at Aḥādīth, at the way how Arabs spoke, and discovered that some words change in the sentence and some not ..."
Sh. Sulaymān al-ʿUyūnī حفظه الله
This is how Arabic grammar was born. Scholars closely studied the language and extracted its principles.
Whoever has studied Arabic grammar, surely was amazed at its precision, logic, beauty and depth.
Another quote:
" It won’t come as a surprise that the verb is the cause of some consternation for learners of Semitic languages.
But since we do not need to sweat over the details, let’s just sit back and reflect on the principles involved.
Think for a moment about all the meticulous planning which must have gone into developing such a system — it almost defies belief that such an algebraic scheme could have been conceived in any other way except through the inspiration of a gifted designer.
How else could the abstract idea of a purely consonantal root have been devised?
Is it really possible that the templates that produce a whole network of nuances could have arisen of their own accord?"
Guy Deutscher, “ Unfolding the language ” on the structure of Arabic language
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سَنُرِيهِمۡ ءَايَٰتِنَا فِي ٱلۡأٓفَاقِ وَفِيٓ أَنفُسِهِمۡ حَتَّىٰ يَتَبَيَّنَ لَهُمۡ أَنَّهُ ٱلۡحَقُّۗ
We will show them Our Signs in the universe, and in their own selves, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the truth.
Qurʾān 41:53
Sh. Sulaymān al-ʿUyūnī حفظه الله
This is how Arabic grammar was born. Scholars closely studied the language and extracted its principles.
Whoever has studied Arabic grammar, surely was amazed at its precision, logic, beauty and depth.
Another quote:
" It won’t come as a surprise that the verb is the cause of some consternation for learners of Semitic languages.
But since we do not need to sweat over the details, let’s just sit back and reflect on the principles involved.
Think for a moment about all the meticulous planning which must have gone into developing such a system — it almost defies belief that such an algebraic scheme could have been conceived in any other way except through the inspiration of a gifted designer.
How else could the abstract idea of a purely consonantal root have been devised?
Is it really possible that the templates that produce a whole network of nuances could have arisen of their own accord?"
Guy Deutscher, “ Unfolding the language ” on the structure of Arabic language
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سَنُرِيهِمۡ ءَايَٰتِنَا فِي ٱلۡأٓفَاقِ وَفِيٓ أَنفُسِهِمۡ حَتَّىٰ يَتَبَيَّنَ لَهُمۡ أَنَّهُ ٱلۡحَقُّۗ
We will show them Our Signs in the universe, and in their own selves, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the truth.
Qurʾān 41:53