Favours of the Gracious God — Page 162
162 Whoever casts a glance at its brilliance turns pale and falls like the dead. The enemies do not have the chance to produce evidence in support of their claim, or to emerge from their tents; rather they are like the dead who have already been buried. You will find that their languages do not possess a countenance that is handsomely formed, full of life and has a glowing freshness. Instead, you will find these languages resembling a desert, that has nothing except sand and stones, without even a spring of clear water. Linguistic experts and researchers in this field, who are well-informed of the wonderous characteristics of Arabic, have examined its system of root words, evaluated them , and observed the purity of its compound words and tasted them. They know with certainty and resolutely acknowledge that Arabic is unique in its characteristics, its root words are perfect, its compound words remarkable, one is enchanted by the beauty of its sentence construction, and there is no other tongue in the world that reaches the rank of its excellences. They know that its system of root words is at the pinnacle of perfection and no other language comes close in matching its excellences. This claim has been put to test numerous times and the adversaries and critics have