Favours of the Gracious God — Page 12
12 in some parts of Arabic. Then, in the American language and in Sanskrit, there are conjugations to convey the variation in meaning of words. Such conjugations are also found in Arabic. The Chinese language does not have conjugations but for conveying a new idea or thought it uses a different word. In the case of certain words, this characteristic exists in Arabic as well. Therefore, when pondering over this, and engaging in full deliberation and in-depth research, it is found that as a matter of fact, the Arabic language combines within itself the various qualities of all languages. Thus, it has to be necessarily accepted that all languages are indeed the branches of Arabic. Some raise the objection that if one language is acknowledged as the root and origin of all languages, it is difficult to accept that within only three or four thousand years languages, which had a singular origin, became so diverse. The answer to this is that this objection is, in reality, of the category which is founded on fallacy upon fallacy. To begin with, it is not an established fact that the age of the world is only four or five-thousand years and that heaven and earth had no existence before that. Instead, profound research in this matter informs us that this world has been inhabited for a very long