Favours of the Gracious God — Page 120
120 of all previous scriptures; likewise, Arabic is the mother of all tongues, and is from God the Most High, and other languages are like its sons and daughters, and there is no doubt that all these other languages are akin to its neonate boys and girls, and every language eats from its bowl and table, and every language harvests the fruits of Arabic, eats its fill from the table of Arabic, and drinks from the river of Arabic, and it is from the cloth of Arabic that it is clothed, as it is Arabic that is the caretaker who has loaned her own garments to every other language and taken up her own position on the throne. As for the difference in the composition of languag - es: this is not surprising. In the same way differences in inflections and dynamics of words [within a language], cannot be taken as proof of an absence of unity. Similarly, if this small difference which arises within a language due to structural formulation did not exist, then this would naturally remove the cause which resulted in the formulation of different tongues; for the princi - pal reason as to why there are many different languages is because of this inherent structural difference within a language itself. Therefore, there is no justification for a critic to express this objection. There is no room for such an objection, when it is akin to objecting against a