Bengali

البنغالية

Language of Bangladesh and Bengal; among the most-spoken languages by Muslims, with a wide Islamic and folk literature.

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Overview

The language of Bangladesh and Bengal; the fourth most widespread language among Muslims, with wide Islamic and popular written works. 1

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Qur'an, hadith, poetry, and the languages and scripts of Muslim peoples.
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God teaches Adam the names

Sha'rawi holds that God taught Adam all the names by an inspiration cast into his heart, that language is not heredity or environment but imitation of what one hears, and that every knowledge ends at a first teacher, who is God.