Favours of the Gracious God — Page 163
163 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS been left speechless and every assailant has been repelled. However, if you insist upon denial, then present its likeness from any other language. And you will certainly not be able to do so, even if you were to wipe yourselves out like a swarm of locusts who have stripped the land or commit suicide like the foolish. Be not therefore, from among the ignorant. One has to feel deep regret for those amongst the aggressive Christians who are quick to jump to conclusions: they are overconfident. They have come to regard Sanskrit as the greatest of all tongues, praising it based on their feeble ideas and rejoicing in their own false notions. Their example is like a woodcutter who goes out at night, or like someone who collects the froth and straw floating on the water but discards the water itself or takes a gulp from a turbid source while ignoring clear water. Do you not observe the Hindi language, Sanskrit etc. and the other ‘ajam i languages, as to how the majority of their vocabularies comprise of chiselled words and manufactured expressions? Thus, how can they ever be compared to the pure root words [of Arabic]? The deficiency of their vocabulary and the paucity of their linguistic trove is clear evidence that those languages have not originated from God Almighty, nor were they in existence from the beginning.