Wednesday, October 16, 2013
For
instance, language is for communication to the other human, built a
civilization, a society and made a relationship. Allah has taught a
human a language3.
And Allah has a “language” thou self, but it not seems with our
language, we know in the Qur’an:
وكلم
الله موسى تكليما4
It
means that Allah talk with Musa AS, the interpretation is Allah has a
“language”, without sounds and words. The big question, could it
be? Yes, it could, because Allah is god, Allah the first
of those who are first and last of those who are last,
Allah talk, command, prohibit, promise, and threaten with the first
Kalam Azali and stand-alone, thou kalam is not seem with the
creature. Thou kalam is not cause the sounds that out from the
mouth5.
The
real example, when we feel something; happy, sad, worry, anxious,
pain, love etc. exactly we said with our self, example; “I’ve
done the best that I can do but I got C in the reading exam.” ,
“I’m happy cause I got A in the Arabic language exam”, is it
said? No. Everyone will not understand what you are feeling although
he/she beside you, it was “The heart language”. Like that Allah
talks with Musa AS, without sounds and words, and talk with the other
prophet.
Language,
so what the language is? Further we talk about language, but we don’t
know what the definition is? When we ask in the street about
language, one of the answers is language is used for communication,
and it is made up of sounds. For example; the expression good
morning in English,
Buenos dias in
Spain, buongiorno
in Italia, Guten
morgen in German,
selamat pagi in
Indonesia, sugeng
enjing in Center of
Java.
Every
region has the specific language, like the example above. That is,
there is no necessary connection between the sounds people use and
the object to which those sounds refer. Such as; guten
morgen, certainly
we are unfamiliar with these language, but after we open the German
dictionary, we will know that word means good
morning, Word have
the meaning they do and occur in the order they do, one of the
characteristics of human language i.e. arbitrary.
Second
characteristic is systematic. Since language is a system of speech
sounds, it is systematic. For instance, ‘good morning my dear’
will certainly make sense and meaning, but a random accumulation of
words like ‘dear my good morning’. The latter doesn’t make a
meaning because the signaling units of words here are not arranged
according to the characteristics patterns of English.
Third
characteristic is spoken. All people in the whole world, regardless
of their ethnic group or region, always speak a language. This means
that they always have the way of communication ideas by manipulating
sounds that are produced by their vocal organs, mouth. Even though
some of the primitive ethnic group such as; Indian and Batak has a
language of their own, like a gesture, drum beating, make a cloud of
smoke.
The
last of the characteristic is social because it is only used in a
social group which involves the speaker and the hearer. In addition,
language is a system of speak is used at least 2 persons
systematically and has a meaning. Whereas the animal doesn’t have
that characteristic, it is the latter use of language which
distinguishes man from animal.
The
animals can communication, such as; the ants, we can see when they
walk in the wall and meet with the other ant, they will stop and
accost. The research said that they stop because they will inform
somewhere there is a foods, such as; a sugar. But they are not
communicate with the language like us, because the animal haven’t
the specific characteristics of the human language such as; duality,
productivity, arbitrariness, interchangeability, displacement,
specialization, and cultural transmission. Although sometimes we see
a cockatoo can imitate the sounds of human, for instance; selamat
pagi tuan, ada
tamu, ada tamu!!
But they can’t to make the else “language” that had been taught
by the owner who taught the cockatoo i.e. unproductive and we know
that the “android mobile phone” has an application program who
called “tomcat”, it can imitate our voice, when we say something.
In
conclusion, Allah gave us a position to be the best of the creature,
give us the blessings, and taught us the language.With it we can
communication with the other people in the whole world, without see
the region, ethnic, nation, color of leather, and religion. The aim
is to know, to understand and interconnect with them6.
And the animal, why they can’t “speak a language”??? We know
that in Koran, Allah told us “When
the word [of truth] stands revealed against them,We shall bring forth
unto them out of the earth a creature which will tell them that
mankind had no real faith in Our messages7.”
And in Hadits
(traditional collection of stories relating words or deeds of
Muhammad SAW the chief source of guidance for understanding religious
questions) one of the signs of the doomsday is the animal can “speak
a language” like human being8.
1
Surah At-tin: 4
2 MukhtasharIhyaUlumuddin:
215
3
Surah Ar-rahman: 3
4 Surah
An-nisa:164
5 MukhtasharIhyaUlumuddin:
24
6
Surah Al-hujurat: 13
7
Surah An-naml: 82
8
HR: Muslim
