Favours of the Gracious God — Page 179
179 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS returning to their homeland in good health. But there are some words which were transformed by disease so much so that they reached the point of being uprooted, and looked like [corpses in] funeral processions after they had been persons of generosity and munificence, and their faces aged, when once they had been like hidden pearls, and their beauty and radiance was lost, and their light and brightness vanished, where once they had looked like a delicately and gracefully formed woman, they emerged like an old man whose strength is lost, or they can be likened to a horse that once had impressive speed, or to a she-camel which once possessed such fast pace that she had never suffered defeat, or to a sturdy she-camel which once had speed beyond par. And no one can contradict this statement unless he is ignorant of the truth or may be a liar. There is no doubt that the truth has come to light and falsehood has vanished. And the army of truth and certainty has surely waged a war against falsehood. The above was a description of the significance of Arabic root words. As for its compound forms, they have an even higher status according to those who possess insight. If for instance musk and pearls are mixed for some purpose, then there is no doubt that they form a more potent medicine for preventing disease than when