Favours of the Gracious God — Page 186
186 and every step remains in accordance to the divisions found in nature. This is a true statement and not nonsense. It is for this reason that I have written this text in Arabic and have presented this introduction like a valiant soldier, so that I may cut the root of every rival; so that my opponents may ponder over the varying angles of this text or, if they are truthful, they ought to present a similar example from their own language. And you have already heard that the root words of Arabic imitate the divisions found in nature, and whatever such division has granted, these words also provide and use every word on such an occasion which has been required by the situation or determined by divine attributes. And these root words do not walk like vagabonds. On the contrary they demonstrate the distinctions between [the meaning of] words in accordance with the varying needs that can arise. They reveal all such matters through the system of root words which the One who has created various divisions has manifested in the mirror of events. Therefore, we demand a similar example, from the opponents. And I have not said all this like someone who is idly whistling away; rather, I have demonstrated this in the