Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 16
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part Four 16 Besides, it is not correct to say that each and every language is a human invention. It has been proven by thorough research that the Omnipotent God, who created mankind with His perfect power, is also the One who invented and created languages for mankind and bestowed upon man a tongue that he may be able to speak. If language had been a human invention, no newborn baby would need to be taught how to speak; and he would be able to invent a language of his own when he grew up. But it is patently manifest that no child can speak anything without being taught to speak a language. Whether you raise a child in some Greek forest, or leave him alone in the British Isles, or take him to some territory below the equator, he will still require instruction to be able to speak. Without being taught, he would be unable to speak. Someone may say in support of this notion [i. e. languages have been invented by man] that we ourselves observe that languages are constantly undergoing hundreds of natural changes and alterations, from which it is proven that man is involved in the changes. It should be borne in mind that this idea is a serious misconception. It is not through human intention or volition that languages change, nor can any law be laid down which establishes that human nature causes a language to change at certain times. On the contrary, careful study shows that all changes in language—as indeed in all things celestial or terrestrial—only come about through the special will and power of the Cause of all causes [i. e. Allah]. It can never be established that mankind, jointly or severally, invented all the languages that are spoken in the world. If anyone har- bours the doubt that, as God Almighty always causes languages to change through a natural process, why is it not possible that languages may have originated in the same way in the beginning without any particular revelation, then the reply is that the general law of nature at the beginning of the universe was that God created everything solely through His omnipotence. Reflection upon the heavens, earth, sun, moon, and on human nature itself would reveal that the beginning of