Reading from the author's words, with commentary on them and collation of the manuscripts: "Know that becoming accustomed to the language affects the intellect, character, and religion with a strong, clear effect, and it also affects the resemblance to the early generations of this Ummah, the Companions and the Successors, and their resemblance increases the intellect, religion, and character. Also, the Arabic language itself is part of the religion, and knowing it is an obligatory duty, for understanding the Book and the Sunnah is obligatory, and it is not understood except by understanding the Arabic language, and whatever is not completed except by it is obligatory.
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The reader: "Know that becoming accustomed to the language affects the intellect, character, and religion with a strong, clear effect, and it also affects the resemblance to the early generations of this Ummah, the Companions and the Successors, and their resemblance increases the intellect, religion, and character. Also, the Arabic language itself is part of the religion, and knowing it is an obligatory duty, for understanding the Book and the Sunnah is obligatory, and it is not understood except by understanding the Arabic language, and whatever is not completed except by it is obligatory. Then, some of it is an individual obligation, and some of it is a collective obligation. This is the meaning of what Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated
He said: He told us, Isa ibn Yunus, from Thawr, from 'Umar ibn Zayd, that he said: 'Umar wrote to Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him): "As for what follows"
The Shaykh : From both of them, Mathna
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : A copy, as indicated, make it a copy
The reader: "'Umar wrote to Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with them both): It has reached me. As for what follows: Acquire knowledge of the Sunnah, acquire knowledge of the Arabic language, and make the Qur'an eloquent, for it is Arabic
And in another hadith from 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), he said: "Learn the Arabic language, for it is part of your religion, and learn the laws of inheritance, for they are part of your religion." And what 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) commanded regarding the understanding of the Arabic language and the understanding of the Shari'ah encompasses what is needed, because the religion contains words and actions, so the understanding of the Arabic language is the path to the understanding of its words, and the understanding of the Sunnah is the understanding of its actions"
The Shaykh : Yes
He said: He told us, Isa ibn Yunus, from Thawr, from 'Umar ibn Zayd, that he said: 'Umar wrote to Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him): "As for what follows"
The Shaykh : From both of them, Mathna
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : A copy, as indicated, make it a copy
The reader: "'Umar wrote to Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with them both): It has reached me. As for what follows: Acquire knowledge of the Sunnah, acquire knowledge of the Arabic language, and make the Qur'an eloquent, for it is Arabic
And in another hadith from 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), he said: "Learn the Arabic language, for it is part of your religion, and learn the laws of inheritance, for they are part of your religion." And what 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) commanded regarding the understanding of the Arabic language and the understanding of the Shari'ah encompasses what is needed, because the religion contains words and actions, so the understanding of the Arabic language is the path to the understanding of its words, and the understanding of the Sunnah is the understanding of its actions"
The Shaykh : Yes