The peoples of the Middle East suffer from linguistic narcissism, Some see Arabic as the language of the people of Paradise and the language of God, Claiming that Arabic is the language of the people of Paradise means that the people of Paradise will be limited to the Arab race, to which the best nation belongs, Several peoples preceded the Arabs in making this kind of nonsense claim, such as the Hebrews who claimed that God and the angels speak Hebrew, and the Greeks who believed that the gods in their mythology spoke Greek, The greatest calamity came from some peoples claiming the sanctity of the Arabic language, which caused it many harms! For example, in terms of the inability to develop it, In general, we consider linguistic fanaticism to be a disease that has afflicted many peoples, especially the Arabs.
Some Arabs consider Arabic to be a clear language, unlike their view of other languages as “non-Arabic,” meaning unclear, Non-Arabic is the language of the uncivilized, and “non-Arabic” means incomprehensible speech! In general, there is no language that cannot be used to express any situation or condition in a comprehensible way.
The Arabic language is important to us in this region because it is a primary language for conversation and communication among people, but it is not important to us in other fields such as sciences like physics, medicine, chemistry and the rest of the sciences, because its content in this regard is very trivial, Arabic has not succeeded in becoming a language that carries science and technology, because there is no science or technology among those who write in it, unlike Hebrew, which was considered dead but rose from the grave at the hands of the Israeli scientific flourishing.
Arabic is not important to us in the field of communication with the outside world, as there are other languages in this field that are more important than Arabic to varying degrees, such as English, Arabic will not be of any importance to us in the future, because UNESCO believes that Arabic is on its way to extinction, The importance of Arabic does not lie in the narcissism of some of its speakers or those who are fanatical about it for any reason, such as considering this language sacred, because this claim is nothing but nonsense, and will lead over time to the mummification and stagnation of the language, and thus cause additional harm to it.
One of the flaws of Arabic is the multiplicity of names for a single thing, such as camel, horse, or sword. For example, the lion has 300 names, wine 50, and the camel 1000, and so on, Furthermore, a single word can have numerous connotations or meanings, This flaw is called “linguistic stagnation ” The abundance of Arabic vocabulary has led some to believe it is “rich,” but this richness is illusory, The sheer volume of vocabulary offers no advantage; on the contrary, it makes its use difficult and misleading in many situations, such as disputes over interpretations, This has led, since the era of the four founding caliphs, to numerous wars that continue in various forms to this day, Even today, there is no clear understanding of what is contained in the six hundred pages of the Quran, What is written in those pages is in a weak, contradictory language, transmitted in a distorted and incoherent manner from various sources, Those pages contain many concepts and rulings that were not even suitable for the era in which they were written, let alone for later eras,A book of such poor quality, with its contradictions, cannot possibly be a true book, And its weakness, then the bad judgments it contains are from the work of God.
Linguistic misrepresentation includes inaccuracy in determining the meaning or content of a word, Rather, the matter tends to be that a word can combine opposites in its connotations, as if one word indicates black and white at the same time, such as the word “qa’ad” sitting)which indicates standing and sitting at the same time,, There are many examples in this regard, Some people utter a word that is understood in several ways, which perpetuates ambiguity and different interpretations, and consequently, disputes, which have not stopped since 1440 until now, Other languages do not know these negatives to the extent known about Arabic.
The morphology is rigid, in addition to the complexity of the rules, In terms of the complexity of the rules, only Chinese surpasses Arabic, We notice in the field of social communication the difficulty of a learner writing two lines without making many mistakes, For this reason and others, Arabic evolved into colloquial Arabic to facilitate oral or written communication between people, The matter of the transformation or conversion of linguistic usage to colloquial Arabic was a demand of many writers such as Said Akl and others, The development of linguistic usage among people to colloquial Arabic indicates the failure of Classical Arabic in the matter of communication between people, Is there anyone who can write a single phrase without committing a number of mistakes equal to approximately the number of words in that phrase?
Language extinction is not uncommon, especially since language, any language, is not a vessel for the identity of any people, The Arabian Gulf has adopted English without losing its identity, and about 28 countries still speak French without becoming part of France, America remains American despite speaking English, and there are many examples of this in the world, It can be said that Arabic linguistic narcissism is nearing its end, as UNESCO claims, There is no benefit in linguistic fanaticism, just as there is no benefit in ignoring the interests that the Gulf, for example, considers, Imposing a specific language on peoples who want to use another language for many reasons is a form of unacceptable coercion, Language is a commodity for consumption and use, like a car or any other consumer good, People use it as they wish and however they wish, Language is not sacred because there is nothing sacred in life except human life, Talking about the language of God or the language of the people of Paradise is nonsense because the concept of God itself is nonsense!
The Arabic vocabulary has reached about 12 million words, which is about 25 times the number of words in English, which consists of 600,000 words, The French language does not know more than 150,000 words or words, while the German vocabulary has reached 5.3 million words, The Chinese language has 122,000 words, and Turkish has 111,000 words, From the narrative we have presented, we see that the Arabic vocabulary is more than the vocabulary of the languages mentioned, which have produced literature, philosophy, science, and civilization, and have achieved great spread, to the point that some expect that English will become the language of the whole world, Therefore, the abundance of vocabulary cannot be considered “richness,” as the Arabic language allows the use of the word “richness” in places and in meanings other than its own, which means that Arabic is a flabby language.
There is no need to demand language reform in the positive, constructive sense of the word. Instead, we must first combat Salafism and linguistic narcissism, and we must try to separate language from identity. Some parents of children born in Europe after the large wave of refugees consider their children Arabs, even though these children do not speak or write Arabic. What is the importance of Arabic for the future of these children in Europe? Whoever does not see their future in Europe and does not want to abide by the laws of the countries that received refugees should return to the countries they came from, or they will be forcibly deported. 80% of Syrian refugees will be deported within three years, as announced by the German Chancellor at the press conference attended by al-Julani, who does not actually want Syrians to return to Syria, but rather wants them to remain where they are now!
If the question of the Arabic language had been posed to Kemal Ataturk, he would have answered that it was necessary for these children not to learn Arabic, in order to protect them from the transmission of the narcissistic, Salafist Arab intellectual backwardness to their minds, Indeed, Ataturk abolished Arabic by abolishing the letters in which it is written, Arabic is not a treasure, but rather chatter.
