The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 2
2. Essence of Islam II about changes in languages, in the beginning languages might have been originated in the same way without the need of revelation? The answer is that in the beginning. God had created everything simply through His power. . Reflection on heaven, earth, sun, moon and on human nature itself would disclose that the beginning and origin of everything was through the pure operation of Divine power, in which no physical means were involved. . Whatever God created was a manifestation of His supreme power, which is beyond the concept of man. . . . . . The circumstances of today cannot serve as a precedent for the beginning and origin of creation. For instance, today no child is born without the agency of parents, but if in the beginning the same condition had been essential, man could not have come into being. Moreover, there is a world of difference between changes that naturally occur from time to time in languages and the birth of speech itself in the original void. The two concepts are entirely different. [Brāhīn-e-Aḥmadiyya, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 1, pp. 358-404]. Are Languages the Invention of Man?. Some ignorant Āryās, holding Sanskrit as the language of. Permeshwar, consider all other languages, which comprise of hundreds of Divine wonders and curiosities, as the invention of man; as if while Permeshwar revealed one language, men invented scores of languages better than that one. We would inquire from the Āryās that if it is true that Sanskrit was issued from the mouth of. Permeshwar, and all other languages are the inventions of men and have no relationship with Permeshwar, what are the particular characteristics of Sanskrit which are not to be found in other languages; for the speech of Permeshwar must have superiority over the inventions of