Favours of the Gracious God — Page 4
4 since other languages too were not wilfully invented by man but, under divine direction, deteriorated after having emerged from this holy tongue and are the progeny of this language, it was not inappropriate that divine books be revealed in those tongues for certain nations. However, it was necessary that the highest and most perfect Book should be revealed in Arabic because Arabic is the mother of all languages, is the true revealed language and has emanated from the mouth of God Almighty. Moreover, since this argument is presented only by the Holy Qur’an and it alone makes such a claim, and no other Arabic book advances such claim, we are compelled to acknowledge the divine origin of the Holy Qur’an and it being a guardian over other books; otherwise other books too shall be deemed false. Therefore, I have written this book for this very purpose so that firstly, with God’s help, I may establish the mutual relationship of all languages, and may thereafter, articulate proofs of Arabic being the mother of all languages and the true revealed language, and then on the basis of this uniqueness of Arabic, that it alone is the perfect, pure and revealed language, I should present conclusive and definitive proof of the final conclusion, that among all divine books the Holy Qur’an alone is the most superior, most exalted, most complete,