Favours of the Gracious God — Page 166
166 of root words. Indeed, in this is a sign for those possessed of insight. It is no secret to any wise person, nor to any literary writer, that all other tongues are dependent upon a variety of miscellaneous compound structures, and do not utilise root words in the same manner as the clear Arabic language does. You already know that root words predate compound words, because it is through root words that the well-set teeth of compound structures appear, and upon them depends the art of composition and writing. Thus, the component which takes precedence by natural occurrence is indeed that which was issued directly from the Most Gracious God, and the knowledgeable people see that every compound word reverts back to a root word. Therefore, do you perceive what we have perceived, or is it still veiled to you? Furthermore, there is no doubt that the words which have accumulated due to the loss of root words and were put in their place due to dire necessity, are themselves proclaiming with the tongue of their form that they were concocted at the time of need. Therefore, when it is established that they were fabricated by man and collected as a result of necessity, they cannot be attributed to that Perfect Creator Who adopts the approach of brevity