Favours of the Gracious God — Page 177
177 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS the onlookers. Some of these [languages] have covered their faces with a cloak, masking themselves due to shame; whilst others have dyed their coverings out of deception, posing as if they were wearing a mantle. Then there are those [languages] which have retained their original form: the scorching sun of foreign lands and the mid-day heat has not transformed their faces nor have the hurricanes of separation shaken their foundations. Rather, a certain aroma from them has lingered on, its waft revealing this hidden secret, whose scent manifests the garden of truth, and they are recognised by the spreading of their fragrance from their lofty windows; they attract one’s heart like the appearance of a handsome person. Albeit, it is true that these [languages] were expelled from their designated homes, banished from their ancestral homelands separated from their companions, and extraneous material was heaped on them as if they were being buried with soil, covered up like the dead, rather as if they had been buried alive. They were left alone and friendless. Thereafter, the time arrived when the memories of their homeland came flooding back, and they longed to return. So they became ready to uproot the tents of their