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The language of the Pashtuns in Afghanistan and Pakistan; it has great Sufi poets such as Abd al-Rahman Baba and Khushal Khan Khattak. ¹

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islam.museum contributors. “Pashto”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/language/pashto/. 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.