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Indonesian

الإندونيسية

Indonesia's national language — the world's largest Muslim-majority country; Malay-based with a large modern da'wa and educational literature.

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Overview

The national language of Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country; built on Malay and rich in modern preaching and educational literature. 1

People and things also explored

God teaches Adam the names· Amharic· Arabic· Bengali· Bosnian· Hausa· Kurdish· Malay

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islam.museum contributors. “Indonesian”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/language/indonesian/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.

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Qur'an, hadith, poetry, and the languages and scripts of Muslim peoples. Related

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.