Stories from Early Ahmadiyyat — Page 21
The Revealed Sermon It was the year 1900 when the Promised Messiah as delivered a sermon in Arabic, known and published as Khutbah Ilhaamiyyah [ The Revealed Sermon ]. As its name indicates, the sermon was Divinely inspired. It must be mentioned that Arabic was not the mother tongue of Hazrat Ahmad as, nor had he been to places where Arabic was spoken. One of the charges made against Hazrat Ahmad as by his opponents was that he was not well versed in the Arabic language, therefore he could not claim to understand the Holy Quran fully and be able to put forward arguments in support of his claims. Moreover, they said that he had not attended any famous religious schools where this sort of education was supplied. It was true that he did not have any formal school education in Arabic, but God, by His Divine Grace, bestowed upon him the knowledge of the Arabic language. The Promised Messiah as himself has written that God had taught him forty thousand root words of the Arabic lan- guage in a single night. Thereafter, he was commanded by God to write in Arabic and promised him special help. Accordingly, he wrote one chapter in Arabic, which is