Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 17
Chapter One 17 time was the age of the manifestation of pure divine power, in which the usual [physical] means were not involved at all. Whatever God created in that age was done with such a magnificent omnipotence that it astonishes the human mind. Observe the celestial bodies—the earth, the heavens, the sun, the moon, etc. —how this immense task was accomplished without resorting to any means, builders, or labourers, solely by His will and a single command. Hence, when, at the time of creation, all things were initially brought about by divine command, and were caused by divine will without any involvement of natural causes and physical means, why then should we think, like the disbelievers, that God was incapable of creating languages even though He created everything else solely through His power? He who proved His perfect powers by creating man without the agency of parents, why should His power be regarded inadequate in the matter of languages? In short, when every sensible person has to admit that the age of the first period of creation was an age of the manifestation of God’s pure omnipotence, and that the gen- eral prevailing law in that age was that everything would be brought about directly without the medium of usual causes, then to exclude lan- guages from this rule would be a violation of the [then operating] law of nature and a sign of sheer ignorance and folly. The circumstances of today cannot serve as the rule when discuss- ing that age [i. e. the first period of creation]. For instance, today no child is born without the agency of a mother and father, but if the birth of man had also been dependent upon the existence of parents in the beginning, then how could this world have come into being? Moreover, there is a great difference between changes that naturally occur from time to time in languages and the scenario in which a language appears ex nihilo. Some change taking place in an existing language is one thing but the birth of a language with all its features from absolutely nothing is an altogether different matter. Moreover, even now God Almighty reveals His word in various languages to His servants and can bestow revelation upon them in