Some Hidden Pearls — Page 88
l the language, by direct Revelation teaching him as many as forty thousand important words and roots he wrote numerous works in it, all of a matchless and powerful style of expression, the like of which the Ulama of India and the Arabic speaking people failed to produce. But even after all this had taken place, the Promised Messiah had never, as yet, made a speech or delivered an address in Arabic, for there had been no occasion for it. But in 1900 of the Christian era, and 1317 of the Islamic Hijri, circumstances presented a good opportunity for this purpose. This address, delivered by the Promised Messiah on the occasion of the Eidul Azhia of the year, has since been published under the title Khutba. Ilhamia. Delivered quite extempore, without any kind of preparation, and lasting more than an hour, it presents such unique and matchless example of powerful speech in Arabic as to throw literary figures of the Arab world itself into utter amazement. About this memorable event, 88