Favours of the Gracious God — Page 14
14 life-spans, disease and morals yet why did it not occur that at some place, there arose a [further] difference of ten eyes in place of one? Thus, how can we respond to such conjecture except to state that this change did not proceed in a disorderly manner; rather it was subject to the laws of physics: the degree of change was determined by such laws. In short, whatever changes develop in the evolutionary pace of man’s mental and physical makeup, under heavenly and earthly influences, such changes necessarily bring about alteration in the pattern of verbal articulation, so they [the languages] are inherently obliged to develop a change. Thus, if some word from another language finds its way into the language of a people, they deliberately make many changes to it. So what an excellent argument this is in favour of the fact that by virtue of their natural constitution, which is affected by earthly and heavenly influences, they are naturally in need of change. Furthermore, Christians and Jews have to certainly accept that Arabic is the mother of languages since, it is established on the basis of a clear and definitive text of the Torah that, in the beginning, there was but a single language. Then God Almighty caused linguistic