Favours of the Gracious God — Page 184
184 person! And seek the path of the successful. Know that it is this path that leads to the heights of knowledge, without causing fatigue and weariness. Thus, whoever aspires towards this goes for gold and whosoever distances themselves by abandoning them becomes content with obscenity and falls into the abyss of the lowest of the low. And Arabic is adorned with a perfect system, manifesting every aspect of beauty, and it is able to answer every question asked of it, to such an extent that its wealth has become manifest and dispels any doubts. Arabic follows the footsteps of the law of nature and the nature of man and its house is vast enough to accommodate them, and has incorporated them in various divisions in accordance with the divisions found in nature. Rather it has picked them up and carried them the same way a camel carries a load and in such accord with nature that amazes the onlookers. Thus, it is such a blessed tree that its branches are spread out and its principles are like a closely connected root system, and its material is as extensive as the seeds in a pumpkin. And we do not accept that the perfection of the linguistic system of Arabic can be found in any other language, or that any language is equal in measure to its character. We do concede that, to some extent, each