Favours of the Gracious God — Page 20
20 Fourth Quality : Arabic idioms consist of just a few words yet these have extensive meanings; Arabic conveys such meanings through the use of the definite article, nunation and sequencing for which other languages are in need of a combination of sentences. Fifth Quality : The Arabic language possesses such roots and idioms as furnish perfect resources for expressing the most subtle human thoughts and reflections. Since the onus is upon me to furnish proof of the system of roots in the Arabic language to be so perfect that other books will be unable to compete; furthermore, to also prove the other four qualities of Arabic in similar manner, it becomes important for me to write about these arguments in the Arabic language, for it is my responsibility to demonstrate all these qualities to the opponents. If they declare any other language to be divinely-revealed and the mother of languages, then we demand proof of such qualities [of their language]. Since this is an arduous undertaking, therefore, in order to fully and unsparingly indict and silence any opponent, I deemed it appropriate to adopt an approach that may frustrate all such baseless objections which an opponent, after being rendered incapable of competition, can