Favours of the Gracious God — Page 153
153 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS the language of Adam in the Garden was indeed Arabic. Similarly, ‘Abdul Malik and other scholars through various chains of narration, have narrated a hadith from the Holy Prophet Muhammad s as that Arabic is the first tongue, which originated from Allah and descended from Paradise along with Adam. Subsequently, it underwent distortion and other languages were born out of it. Following this distortion, the first tongue that came into being, through the will of God the Knower of all subtleties, was Syriac. God Almighty altered the dialect of those who had distorted the language; which is why the ancients used to refer to Syriac as the ُ َْوَّل اَّل ِیُّ ا ج اَلْعَر�َ [the original Arabic]. This was indeed Arabic, but with minor inflection. Then a variety of other tongues came into being, just as a variety of religions and sects have been born in the world. And this is the truth. Reflect therefore, like those who are intelligent. Furthermore, out of the methods for discerning the truth, one is that you will find in the Holy Qur’an the mention of differences of colour and tongue in the same place. Thus, by mentioning both in the same place God Almighty is indicating that once there was only one language and similarly one colour. Then, after some time a variation arose in both.