The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 4
4. Essence of Islam II different temperaments in the narrow cage of one language? Moreover, the creation of a diversity of languages would have been proof of the multiple power of God. Almighty. The praise of God offered by His humble creatures in a variety of languages is in itself a most attractive spectacle. [Brāhīn-e-Aḥmadiyya, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 1, pp. 447-456]. Announcement for the Book Minan-ur-Raḥmān. This book is a wonderful production to which we have been directed by some of the verses of the Holy Qur'ān which are replete with wisdom. Among its other bounties the Holy Qur'an includes one whereby the true philosophy of the diversity of languages has been set forth, and we have been apprised of the deep wisdom underlying the source of all languages. We also learn therefrom how greatly those people are mistaken who do not admit that all languages have developed under Divine direction. In this book it has been established as the result of research that the Holy Qur'ān is the only revealed book which has come down in the language which is the mother of tongues, which has been revealed by God, and is the source and fountainhead of all other languages. It is patent that the whole beauty and superiority of a Divine book consists in its being in a language that has proceeded from the mouth of God Almighty and possesses higher qualities than other languages, and is perfect in its pattern. When we find such qualities in a language that are superhuman and beyond human skill, and of which all other languages are bereft, and we discover in it such properties as cannot be invented by any human intellect and proceed only from God's true and eternal knowledge, we are compelled to confess that such a language has proceeded from God Almighty. Our perfect and deep