Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 113
113 guage, nearly a score of books, on the basis of which he successfully challenged people learned in it? It must be remembered that persons who have studied Arabic for years in the schools and colleges of the Punjab are scarcely able to write a few pages of it. No doubt, occasionally people like Dante and Shakespeare do acquire an almost unrivalled mastery over their own language, but they cannot be compared to the Promised Messiah as , for they did not claim beforehand that they would acquire such mastery. They were not even aware of the value that was subsequently placed upon their works. It was only when their works became better known that they were appreciated at their true value. If several persons run a race, one of them is bound to outstrip the others. But such a feat is not regarded as anything out of the ordinary, when, however, a weak and emaciated person who can hardly stand on his legs joins a race, and declares beforehand that he shall win it, and does win it. This will certainly be something out of the ordinary and must be ascribed to the working of some higher agency. That God manifests His attribute of Omniscience in this manner is borne out by the second chapter of the Acts, where it is written that the disciples were taught the languages of different tribes through the Holy Ghost. The difference between the case of the disciples and that of the Promised Messiah as is that the former were taught the languages of the Jewish tribes only and even so they sometimes made mistakes in them, but the Promised Messiah as was taught the language of another country and was given such perfect command over it