Favours of the Gracious God — Page 19
19 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS rendered into a variety of frames and forms after being transformed from Arabic. Among the unique excellences of Arabic—which are specific only to this language and which I will, God willing, elucidate in their respective contexts, and which represent the conclusive proof of it being the mother of all languages, and a perfect and divinely-revealed language—there are five special qualities which are: First Quality : Arabic has a perfect system of roots; these roots aid all human needs [of expression]; all other languages lack such a perfect system. Second Quality : In Arabic, the names of God, of heavenly bodies, of plants, of animals, of inanimate objects and of human limbs comprise great scientific wisdom as to why they are ascribed that particular name. Other languages cannot, in any manner, compete with Arabic in this respect. Third Quality : The Arabic language possesses a perfect system of word-generation which is based on elementary words. The ambit of this system places all verbs and nouns of the same root into a wise order and demonstrates their mutual relationships. This characteristic is not found in other languages to the same degree of perfection.