Favours of the Gracious God — Page 101
101 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS the All-Powerful God, the Knower of the Unseen, Who has created humans with varying capabilities, has deter - mined these two names on the basis of varied abilities. Moreover, another argument is that if these two names ‘ arab and ‘ajam have been invented by some individual merely by way of prejudice and belittlement, then these two appellations will, no doubt, run counter to reality, and would be proven to be a lie which cannot gain wide acceptance. But I have already proven in this book that the word ‘ arab is, in actual fact, a noun which reflects the characteristics of those who are so named. It is certainly true that the Arabic language—by virtue of its system of root words, its fine formulation of expression, and vari - ous other wonders and extraordinary features—occupies such a lofty station that it has to be said that, in contrast to Arabic, other languages are like the one who is mute. And not only this, but when we observe that all other lan - guages lie inert like inanimate objects and the dynamics of word-generation are extinct within these languages to such an extent that it is as if they are lifeless, then one is obliged to admit that in reality those languages are in a state of decline. Thus, it is very softly articulated in Ara - bic that compared to the Arabs, other people are named ‘ Ajam , though, these languages and their people did not