Prophecy and Having the Same Language

Referring to the Quranic verse that says: "we never sent a messenger save the language of his folk" (Quran 14: 4), some people believe in the necessity of being the prophets of the same language of their folks and believe that there is no prophet sent of a different language of his folk. By excuse of this understanding of the verse, regarding the prophecy of the Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h.), there had been caviled that not only he is not the prophet of the non-Arabic-speaking people, but it is necessary to deny his claim on worldwide mission. The experts escaped this problem in different ways such as exception of the Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) or prophets having impetus ('ulu al-'azm) or the interpretation of the folk as the race folk or communication folk and the like. In the writer's opinion, considering the Arabic Grammar and its semantic rules, the basis of this understanding of the verse is not valid, but the conception of the verse denotes only to the negation of sending a prophet of another language in the same time of stimulation (bethah) for the mission and not more. As a result, it is not valid to refer to this verse in order to bring up the problem, as well as it is incorrect to reject the cavil with the above-mentioned answers.