Favours of the Gracious God — Page 26
26 specific language. This general affliction and shortcoming is found in thousands of languages that they employ compound-words instead of root words, which makes it evident that humans themselves formed those words as needed. Thus, a language that is free of these linguistic afflictions and inherently possesses the distinctive quality of making use of root words, and articulates its words in conformity to the act of God Almighty—in accordance to the passions of thought—and proves itself equal in calibre [to such thoughts] will, no doubt, by occupying an extraordinary station and by possessing a distinction amongst all languages, be worthy of being called the original divinely-revealed language and the creation made by Allah. It will be an obligation under a sense of honesty to proclaim that the language which is characterised by this lofty rank that it issued forth from the mouth of God Almighty, and is especially endowed with extraordinary excellences, and is the mother of all languages, is the only language that has been truly determined to be the only one worthy for the most superior and perfect Revelation from God Almighty to descend in it, and other revelations are branches of this Revelation in the same manner as other languages are a branch of the Arabic language. Thus, after the discussion of this argument, I will write on the