Today at a funeral, the imam, speaking as though in the voice of God, recited in Arabic, “Come to Me,” and then repeated its meaning. It was as if God speaks Arabic. This is a common mistake in our society: there are those who believe that God employs Arabic as His language of communication.
To assume that the God we seek to understand ontologically—the Creator of mountains, oceans, planets, and galaxies—possesses a human-like language and speech organs, and even more absurdly, that He uses or favors one of the earthly tongues, is nonsensical. No sincere believer could seriously advance such a claim.
Disputes such as “In what language should the call to prayer (ezan) be recited?” are political polemics. Yet those who think that God prefers Arabic—or any other language—for communication ought to reflect more deeply on the concept of the omnipotent Creator.