Favours of the Gracious God — Page 23
23 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS completed. During such days of effort, it was never the case that an entire day was spent on this, rather at most, only a third or a fourth part of the day was spent in this pursuit. Had full days been devoted to it, perhaps this task could have been completed within a period of a week to ten days. But now, for those who will write in opposition to me, such effort—the likes of which we had to exert— is not a cause of hinderance, for it was essential for me to thoroughly examine all languages and prove their mutual relation to Arabic. Thereafter, it was essential to firmly establish, on the basis of the distinctive excellences and extraordinary perfections of Arabic, that it was divinely- revealed and the mother of all languages. But it is not required of my opponents to undertake the same degree of hard work. Instead, it will be acceptable to me if they should only demonstrate the distinctive excellences of their own language, compared to Arabic, and lay forth the qualities of their own language as compared to Arabic which I have proven in this book. And just as I have, by way of providing an example, by entering the roots of Arabic into the sequence of prose, proven that the system of roots in Arabic is perfect and is fully capable of expressing all kinds of thoughts, they must demonstrate such example from the roots of their own language.