Does every nation need a revelation in their own language?
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144 And We have not sent any messenger except in the language of his people, so he may clarify for them. But God misguides whom He wills, and He guides whom He wills. And He is the Noble, the Wise.
427 And thus We have inspired to you a Qur'an in Arabic, so that you may warn the capital town and all around it, and to warn about the Day of Gathering that is inevitable....
Was Quran sent to Muhammad only to warn arabs?
"If We had made it a foreign Quran, they would have said, ?If only its verses were clear! What? Foreign speech to an Arab?? Say, ?It is guidance and healing for those who have faith, but the ears of the disbelievers are heavy, they are blind to it, it is as if they are being called from a distant place.? (Qur'an 4144)
"We have made the Qur'an easy in your language so that they may take heed it." (Qur'an 445
Arabs during the Prophet's time couldn't just listen to what Jews and Christians were saying about their books because they didn't speak the language, they needed a revelation in their own language..
And how is the Quran "easy" if people today don't speak classical Arabic? Why do we need to spend years learning the language arabs spoke during Muhammads time just to understand the revelation? -
The christians and jews amongst the arabs of course spoke the same language as those they lived with.
14.4 is in the past. Speaks of the messengers previously sent.
As to 42.7 I really dont know what is Umm al Quraa, but whagtever it is, so many ayas of the Qur'an speak universally that there is no doubt that the Qur'an is sent to everybody who wants to listen or undertand.There is no christian language or jew language.
On the other hand, the word 3araby did not mean necessarily back then what it means now. It meant clear, undestandable or eloquent as opposed to 3ajamywich I see trnaslated as foreign but which it is not foreign but as secondary meaning, its primary meaning is "unintelligible", unclear, confusing.
So the Qur'an iiself underlines that it is understandable not obscure and needed of expalnation by "experts".
Salaam