Favours of the Gracious God — Page 175
175 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS language, the language that existed was Arabic, which Allah the Almighty taught Adam and with it perfected [the creation] of man. Subsequently, this language was corrupted and altered, and those illuminated words and phrases became tarnished, defaced and the perfect [linguistic] system perished and the pearl that lay hidden within was lost. And afterwards, those who succeeded them, fell far from the Arabic language, distorting and changing it to such an extent that the divergence became new tongues which contained very little of the original Arabic and only a small portion of the world were left speaking it; whereas, the rest of the world perverted the original Arabic words from their [appropriate] places, casting its jewels far away from their places and mines. As such those [transformed] languages appeared to be new languages in the sight of the ignorant. And they became stripped of their clothing, exposing them as bare-skinned and overtly naked, an abhorrent sight to the beholder. It is for this reason that you can see these languages falling short of systemic organisation, deficient in being able to fully describe the laws of nature, scattered and irregular like timber collected from many different forests and flung down aimlessly. Furthermore, you can see that they are like vagabonds who have no fixed abode or