al-Hasani
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Arabic - the Lingua Franca of the Islamic World ?
We Ajmis (non-Arabs) out number you guys by something like 5 to 1 !
So its our languages that are the dominant Languages of the Muslim World !
We are still nearly 450 million and growing at a fast speed. You can't escape from us.
It's unfair to make a comparison where one party has like 200 languages and the other just 1.
My point is that Arabic is a very rich language that has influenced nearly all if not all languages spoken in the Islamic world - some more than others, (let alone some of the "Western languages" in particular greatly Spanish and Portuguese) and that it was and still is the lingua franca of the Islamic world for obvious reasons such as religious, historical, in terms of influence etc.
Another of my silent points is that many clerics can tend to have a bad understanding of Islam due to them not even understanding what they are reading/reciting due to them not knowing Classical Arabic (Quranic Arabic) well enough. Hence the sometimes idiotic "fatwas" we hear from time to time. Sometimes they cannot even pronounce the words right!
Anyway let us try to stick to the topic.
I think the gentleman in the video at 1:28 is the Shaibi I met.
Yes, those are Shaybis. Nice video. Well-respected family that has served Islam greatly.