Excerpt from An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived From the Best and the Most Copious Eastern Sources
Such being the case, it became a matter of the highest importance to the Arabs to preserve the knowledge of that speech which had thus become obsolescent, and to draw a distinct line between the classical and post-classical languages. For the former language was that of the Kur-an and of the Traditions of Mohammad, the sources of their religious, moral.