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the field against me? The additional grace of Allah, after this academic gift from Him, is this that He has vested me with a miraculous knowledge of as many as 40,000 important words (roots) of the Arabic language; and in literary matters he has blessed me with a perfectly extensive knowledge. " (Anjaam-i-Atham page 234). This claim on the part of the Promised. Messiah, that he had been divinely gifted with an extraordinary knowledge of and command over the Arabic language-that by means of divine Revelation, knowledge of 40,000 Arabic roots and important words had been vouchsafed to him-was not a vain or empty boast. It was a sober and serious claim, to the truth of which even his opponents testified, indirectly, by failing to take up the challenge he threw out so repeatedly, and drove home every time-by remaining silent on it-in fact by fleeing from it in fear. . To speak the truth, this is a claim to the 75