The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 30
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI. GOD GIVEN KNOWLEDGE a. Arabic is the language of the Quran. For perfect understanding and propagation of the Quran, adequate knowledge of. Arabic is essential. Hadhrat Ahmad had no formal education of. Arabic in any school. To begin with his knowledge of this language was elementary. However after God selected him as a reformer. Mahdi and Messiah, he was blessed with extraordinary and miraculous knowledge of Arabic. He claimed that Allah invested him with knowledge of forty thousand important words of Arabic through divine revelation in a single night. This was no empty boast. . Subsequently he wrote a score of books in Arabic including. 'Karamatus Sadiqeen', and 'Noor-ul-Haq' and 'Khutba Ilhamia' and challenged Muslim religious scholars of India and Arabia to compete with him in producing religious literature in Arabic of equal literary excellence and richness in meaning. None among his opponents dared to take up the challenge and they were all silenced. He claimed that. Allah the Gracious had blessed him with extraordinary and miraculous knowledge of the Holy Quran and Arabic language. He also challenged his opponents to compete with him in writing a commentary in Arabic of any selected verses of the Holy Quran. . Scholars from Arabic countries were also invited. No one dared to accept the challenge. The unique excellence of his Arabic prose and poetry is admitted by recognized authorities of Arabic language. This was a great intellectual miracle shown by Hadhrat Ahmad. . P 30