Favours of the Gracious God — Page 25
25 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS Divine injunctions and limits, or on the Hereafter, on trade and agriculture, employment, on stars and astronomy, on nature and medicine, and logic etc. , then the root words of a given language should be able to help in such a way that for every thought that crosses one’s heart there ought to exist a root word [for its expression]. This is evidence that the Perfect Being Who created man and his ability to think, also created from the beginning such elementary root words for expressing these thoughts. My inherent sense of justice obliges me to concede that if a language possesses this distinctive quality that, in line with the stature of human thought, it keeps the beautiful aspect of root words in readiness and reflects the subtle differences found between actions through an equal subtlety of words, and its fundamental root words are capable of accommodating all the requirements of thought, then such a language is without a doubt a divinely-revealed language. It is an act of God that He created man as capable of expressing thousands of different kinds of thoughts. Thus, it was imperative that man was granted, in equal measure to these thoughts, a stock of articulable root words so that the word of God and the act of God may be on par with each other. But making use of idioms, when the need arises, is not a peculiarity found in any