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Shajaa3ah
04-02-2005, 12:47 PM
"Even today — subjected as we are to the apotheosis of popular culture — using the Arabic language respectfully helps us maintain a sense of ourselves and our values. To do otherwise, to disregard the ways of our words, is to forsake our humanity and, perhaps, even forfeit our future. A society is generally as lax as its language. And in a society of this sort, easiness and mediocrity are much esteemed.


Along with the evolution of language — the thousands of neologisms that new technologies and new thinking have brought about, for instance — there has been a concurrent, if perhaps less recognizable, devolution of language. The Arabic language has become more precise for some users of it while becoming more plodding for others. Not a small part of this new cumbrousness is due to the loss of distinctions between words, the misuse of words, and other abuses of language."


[Disclaimer: This was taken from The Vocabula Review (http://www.vocabula.com/). It has been kept the same, except every instance of the word 'English' has been replaced with the word 'Arabic' :)]

Catalyst
04-04-2005, 06:04 PM
:) :thumbsup: :D

Shajaa3ah
07-28-2005, 02:29 PM
A man went to Ziyad ibn Abeehi and complained to him that his father had died and his brother had taken all the inheritence unlawfully, but made a grammatical mistake in his complaint. Ziyad replied, "The loss you have caused your soul is greater than what you have lost in your wealth." [1]


When you consider the laxity of the Arabic language today in light of the first post, there is a lot that it reveals about the state of the Muslims.

[1] 'Uyoon al-Akhbaar 2/159