Favours of the Gracious God — Page 124
FAVOURS OF THE GRACIOUS GOD me, and He has been my Friend, my Custodian and my Saviour; He has made me one of the Muḥaddathīn¹ and of the divinely appointed Reformers. Details of the verses that support the Ummul-Qurā verse, which demonstrate that Arabic is the mother of all tongues and is the revelation of Allah. One of these vers- es is from Sūrah Ar-Rahman which is : خَلَقَ الْإِنْسَانَ عَلَّمَهُ 2 البيان. The word بيان bayan: expression] here refers to the Arabic language; this is alluded to in another verse which states عَرَبِيٌّ مُبِينٍ . Thus God has determined مُبين ]Mubin: plain and clear expression] to be the spe- cial characteristic of Arabic and indicated that this is an exclusive attribute of Arabic and no other tongue shares this quality; this is not something hidden from those who reflect. By the use of the word بيان bayan]He denotes the characteristic of the eloquence of this tongue, and He further points to the fact that it is perfect and fulfils 1 Those blessed with frequent converse with God Almighty. [Publisher] 2 "He created man; He taught him plain speech. ” Sūrah Ar-Rahman 55:4-5. [Publisher] 3 "This is Arabic tongue, plain and clear. " Sūrah An-Nahl 16:104. [Publisher] 124