Favours of the Gracious God — Page 98
98 they only possessed languages that were in a distorted and compromised state, which were mute with regards to expressing the meanings behind roots and nouns. There was no system of root words, nor was there any store of systematic, ongoing word-generation. These languages resembled the bricks of a collapsed building, bearing no trace of their natural arrangement. Thus, how could such incompetent languages have aided them in the realm of divinity and theology? Consequently, all those nations perished. Then the Holy Qur’an was re - vealed in such a perfect language which possessed this linguistic apparatus; therefore the religion of Islam was protected from distortion, and creation did not take the place of the All-Powerful God. Though after this it was my intention to elucidate a few more words and demonstrate the remarkable ex - tent to which the roots of Arabic contain lofty insights; but alas, out of fear of prolonging this discussion, I will have to leave this topic here. However, the three-hun - dred words or so which I have written here, have been written for the purpose that my opponents, too, should formulate texts of a similar kind in their own languag - es. For example they may write a similar treatise and a similar introduction, composed of root words, and