Favours of the Gracious God

by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

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Favours of the Gracious God — Page 165

165 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS were untruthful. They heaped excessive, undeserved praise on their own languages. Therefore, Allah exposed their underlying flaws and made them taste their own haughtiness for having exceeded all limits. And you can see how they oppose the truth and the manifest evidence, and reject what is praised, well-known and visible. They do not give up their rancour and enmity, walking like the blind, especially the Hindus, as they are set on a course of rejection, and their enmity has exceeded all bounds and they possess a lot of arrogance and conceit. They do not fear God Almighty, nor do they adopt humility, nor reflect like those who fear God. They conjecture that they possess the most perfect language. In fact, they claim that it is divinely-revealed. In this manner they have become content with superstitions and have deceived their own hearts through fabrications, and they were not those who possessed insight. You will find their language to be a collection of manufactured words, void of the system of root words. As if their god was only able to synthesize compounds just as he only possessed the power to create human- beings by mixing particles—indeed he was helpless! But Allah the Almighty safeguarded the Arabic language from all these constraints and endowed it with a perfect system