Favours of the Gracious God — Page 185
185 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS language contains a certain amount of root words, but they are incomplete like dilapidated and ruined houses, or like a dried up and shrivelled tree, the owner of which has despaired of receiving any flowers or fruit from it. You will not find an abundance of root words in these unblessed tongues, except only a little which is insufficient to satisfy all requirements. You have already heard that these other languages were Arabic in the earliest of times; subsequently, they were transformed to present an ugly form. It is for this reason that you find them emitting an offensive odour like carrion, and you observe their quiver to be empty like that of the vanquished. And you find these tongues to be in obvious degradation; they do not possess any significant stock of material, nor do they have a wealth of word derivation morphology, nor do they possess the reason behind the formation of words. Their words cling to their meaning like a parasite. And they cannot complete the structure of any narrative, nor can they make any description perfect, by using the linguistic capital of their own home, which they inherited in turn. The speakers of these languages do not possess the ability to write a story or to pen an extensive tale in such a way that the system of root words may run in accordance with the narrative,