Favours of the Gracious God — Page 18
18 Sin‘ a r—the land of Babylon—and built and populated the city. The population grew to such extent the like of which has not been found in any era. Then they became scattered towards other cities and became the means of different languages being spoken in the world. If the objection is presented that Arabic, that has been declared to be the mother of languages, does not possess equal affinity to other languages, rather towards some it is greater and lesser in relation to some others— for instance a little pondering over the ‘ Ibr i 1 language shows that after a small amount of transformation it is, in actuality, Arabic, yet Arabic does not have this degree of affinity with Sanskrit or the European languages—then the answer to this objection is that although ‘Ibr i and its other branches were actually born out of a small change from Arabic, whereas Sanskrit and all other languages of the world stemmed from transformations of a greater degree; however, after deep reflection and an observation of linguistic laws it becomes evident that the sentences and individual words of these languages have been 1 ‘ Ibr i here refers to the earlier name of the Hebrew language. The modern word Hebrew is derived from the word ‘ Ibr i or ‘ Ivr i (plu - ral ‘ Ivr i m) which in English is Hebrews, one of several names for the Israelite people. (See Britannica , under Hebrews ). [Publisher]