Favours of the Gracious God — Page 76
76 function. Similarly, the real purpose of the appearance of Arabic is to show the radiant countenance of divin - ity. But since it was beyond human powers to discharge this exceedingly subtle and precise task with perfection, and remain safe against comitting any error, God the Compassionate, the Ever Merciful, for the purpose of demonstrating the fluency and eloquence of the Ara - bic language, and for revealing the subtle distinctions between its root words, and to demonstrate the ex - traordinary miracle of its compound words, sent down the Holy Qur’an as such a miracle that all bowed their heads [in submission] before it. And whatever the Holy Qur’an demonstrated of the high level of expression in Arabic with regards to its roots and compounds, was not only accepted by the great linguists of the time, but by being unable to match it, they proved that human fac - ulties are incapable of demonstrating such realities and insights, and of showing the true and genuine beauty of the language. It was through this Holy Word that we came to know of the distinction between Ra h m a n [the Gracious] and Ra hi m [the Merciful] , regarding which I have written, as an example, in the above discourse. It is obvious that every language has a number of synonyms, but unless one pays careful attention to their