Favours of the Gracious God — Page 15
15 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS diversity at Babylon. See Torah 1 , Genesis, chapter eleven. It is unanimously agreed upon that the town of Babylon existed on the same land where Karbala is now located. Thus, based on this, the crux of the statement of the Torah is that Arabic is the mother of all languages. With the consensus of English and Islamic researchers it is proven that Babylon—whose inhabitants were spread over two-hundred miles, and in terms of its population was equivalent to five times that of London, and contained wonderful and luxurious gardens, and the Euphrates river flowed through it—was located in Iraq which was a part of Arabia, and when it was ruined and became desolate, its bricks were used to build and populate Basra, Kufa, Hillah, Baghdad and Madain. All these cities are located close to the perimeter of Babylon. Thus, this research proves that Babylon was located in the land of Arabia. Likewise, on a map of Arabia which has been recently published from Beirut, Babylon is shown to be a part of Iraq in Arabia. In the original Hebrew version of the Torah, the book of Genesis, verse one [of chapter 11], reads: 1 “And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech”. ( Genesis 11:1). [Publisher]