Favours of the Gracious God — Page 137
137 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS the observation that a human is not born speaking and conversing, agitate your mind. As we can see with true certainty, that he attains this quality due to training and education; therefore, such an objection does not support your case, rather it detracts from it. Thus, correct your own notion and do not let your heart become unmindful like those asleep. If you accept that the ability to vocally utter a word can only be achieved as a result of learning, then you must accept that the first human beings could not have understood without being made to understand. Thus, in this case you have ended up accepting the very fact which you had rejected! This is indeed true, provided you think and ponder. It is a matter already established and people have investigated this—experimentation and reason bear unanimous testimony—that if new-borns are left with - out training, and no instructor teaches them their tongue, they do not have the innate capability to start speaking, nor can they respond to those who address them, instead, they remain silent like the mute. Thus, for a person who seeks the truth, and is honest and does not follow the ways of those who went astray, what can be a clearer ar - gument than this? Thus, strive with full effort and reflect rationally and