The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 15
Arabic the Mother of Tongues. Faculty of Speech is the Basic Reality of Man 15. It is necessary to point out that observation of the book of nature compels us to acknowledge that the principal sign of all that has been created by the hand of God, or has issued from Him, is that it serves to bring about the recognition of God according to its respective rank and station, and that it proclaims in its own peculiar manner that the true purpose of its creation is to serve as a means of the recognition of the Divine. This is confirmed by the study of the diverse species of God's creation. Thus as the Arabic language has issued from the mouth of God. Almighty, it was necessary that it should also display this sign so that it may be established with certainty that in truth, it is one of those things which have proceeded solely from God Almighty without the intervention of any human effort. All praise, therefore, belongs to Allāh that the Arabic language displays this sign most plainly and clearly. As the verse: ومَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالَّا نَسَ إِلا لِيَعْبُدُونِ declares the true purpose of the creation of man and his faculties. In the same way, the same verity is established about Arabic, which is man's real language and is a part of his creation. There can be no doubt that the creation of man can be deemed complete and perfect only when it is accompanied by the creation of speech also. For that which reveals the true beauty of humanness is the faculty of speech, and it would be no exaggeration to affirm that humanness means speech accompanied by all its essentials. Thus the affirmation of God Almighty that He has 4 'And I have not created the Jinn and the men but that they may worship Me. '-Al-Dhariyāt, 51:57 [Publisher]