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x derogatory when ascribed to God Almighty. This argument is advanced in order to rebuke the Christian concept of the divinity of Jesus. The eloquent expression of the Promised Messiah as finds pinnacle in a book that is aptly written to describe the grand eloquence of Arabic. Page after page the reader is taken on a journey that unfolds new ways of expressing human thought. Undoubtedly, this is bound to inspire generations of researchers into the history of language. After the demise of the Promised Messiah as and in light of the groundbreaking research and principles he established, it was Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Mazhar who furthered this theory, having spent a large part of his life furnishing evidence for languages such as English, Sanskrit, German, French, Chinese, Persian etc. as having originated from Arabic. By the end he had traced the etymological origin of almost twenty thousands words of several languages to Arabic. The translation of Minanur-Ra h m a n was carried out at Additional Wak a lat Ta s n i f by Nauman Ahmad Hadi. I offer my thanks to Waseem Ahmad Sayed for his invaluable assistance in conducting a thorough review and final reading of the translation—alongside the translator and myself, he dedicated a lot of time to our research meetings. I also offer my thanks to Saleem-ur-Rahman of Canada who contributed towards this project and Reem Shraiky who revised the Arabic to English translation. I hope and pray that this is a source of guidance for everyone. Al- Ha j Munir-Ud-Din Shams Additional Wak i l ut-Ta s n i f April 2023