Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 15
Chapter One [Continued from Part III] Some people have fallen prey to the delusion that language is a human invention, and since it is an invention of man, he can achieve the utmost heights in eloquence, fluency, and other excellences, as needed, related to language. For, it is totally unreasonable and irrational to suggest [as they say] that man should fail to make progress with regard to some- thing he has himself invented. [They further argue that] since reason dictates that there is nothing to stop man from making all kinds of pro- gress and reaching a stage of perfection in linguistic eloquence and flu- ency, and given this condition, it should not be impossible to compose even the likeness of Quranic eloquence. I would like to make it clear that this misconception has already been dispelled by what I have written earlier, where I clearly and explic- itly stated that man’s knowledge can never equal the knowledge of God Almighty, and that the disparity that exists in respect of the intellectual faculties between the inferior and superior and the powerful and weak must necessarily be reflected in their linguistic expression. In other words, the speech that emanates from a superior power will be superior and the one that comes from an inferior power will be inferior. This difference becomes obvious and clear when we look at the disparity between the abilities of human beings and realize that a man of inferior abilities cannot compete with someone possessing superior abilities, even though all humans belong to the same species.