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MIRACLES
CANNOT BE DENIED
The
One Who created the universe and
made its operation dependent on
certain laws that He established, is
certainly able to change those laws
for His special, beloved servant and
envoy
The
One Who created the universe and made
its operation dependent on certain laws
that He established, is certainly able
to change those laws for His special,
beloved servant and envoy. Especially in
our day, when scientists have already
abandoned the mechanistic notion of the
universe and defend relativity in its
operation, it is not a rational or
scientific attitude to, on the basis of
absolute determinism or causality, deny
miracles. Furthermore, miracles do not
occur as completely free from material
causes, however slight and insignificant
they are. Given that we see how God
Almighty causes the smallest things to
produce very great entities-He creates
man from a microscopic sperm and enables
man’s memory to contain as much
knowledge as can fill a library-how can
we dare to deny miracles? Is not the
creation of man who, though essentially
so weak as to be defeated by a microbe,
is endowed with such faculties as to
make computers which keep in their
memories as much knowledge as can fill
libraries, a lesser miracle than
enabling a servant of His to give some
food or drink a blessed increase.
Indeed, is not every occurrence in the
universe, every act of God, really a
miracle, the like of which we are unable
to make?
The
miracles of the Prophet Muhammad,
upon him be peace and blessings, are
so certain that they have been
unanimously confirmed and reported
by the authorities of Hadith. A
miracle is the confirmation by the
Creator of his Prophethood.
The
noble Prophet, upon him be peace and
blessings, declared that he was a
Prophet and, in proof of his Prophethood,
he presented the glorious Quran and
nearly a thousand miracles. Those
miracles are as certain to have occurred
as the fact that he declared his
Prophethood. It undeniably proves the
occurrence of those miracles that even
the most obstinate of the unbelievers,
as related in some places in the Quran,
charged him with sorcery. Unable to deny
the miracles, they took them to be-God
forbid!-sorcery, in order to excuse
their persistence in unbelief or to
mislead their followers. The miracles of
the Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace
and blessings, are so certain that they
have been unanimously confirmed and
reported by the authorities of Hadith. A
miracle is the confirmation by the
Creator of his Prophethood. It has the
effects of the words, You have spoken
the truth. If, for instance, one
claims in the presence of the ruler
himself that the ruler has appointed him
to such and such a position, the word
‘Yes’ uttered by the ruler will be
sufficient to prove his claim. Further,
if the ruler changes his usual practice
and attitude at his request, then this
will mean a firmer confirmation of his
claim. It is in the same way that the
noble Messenger, upon him be peace and
blessings, claimed that he was the envoy
of the Creator of the universe, and God,
the Creator, in turn, changed His
unbroken order at his prayer and request
so that he could work miracles in order
to prove his claim.
Denial
of the miracles amounts to the
denial of God’s existence and the
Prophethood of Muhammad, upon him be
peace and blessings, as well as the
Divine authorship of the Qur’an.
Denial
of the miracles amounts to the denial of
God’s existence and the Prophethood of
Muhammad, upon him be peace and
blessings, as well as the Divine
authorship of the Quran. In fact,
such a denial is completely absurd and
meaningless, for while a single evidence
is enough to prove a claim, its denial
requires an overall investigation
through all times and places. For
example, if one claims that swans may
also be black, in order to prove this
claim, it is enough for one to find and
show a single black swan. But if you
claim that there cannot be any black
swans, you will have to show all the
swans from the beginning to the end of
time. So, denial is something almost
impossible to prove. The like of one who
dares to deny the miracles, which
billions of believers, including
hundreds of thousands of saints,
scholars and scientists, have confirmed
since the Prophet’s claim of
Prophethood, is the like of him who sees
closed only one of the thousand doors of
a magnificent palace and concludes that
it is impossible to enter the palace.
Almost
all of the Prophets worked miracles
Almost
all of the Prophets worked miracles. For
centuries, millions of Jews and billions
of Christians have confirmed the
miracles of Moses and Jesus
respectively. When compared to the other
Prophets, what shortcoming has the
Prophet Muhammad that those who confirm
Moses’s speaking to God and Jesus’
raising the dead by God’s leave and
ascension to heavens, dare to deny
Muhammad’s miracles?
Denial
of the miracles is unscientific
insofar as such a denial is a
judgment or conclusion which must be
based on concrete proof.
The
creation of Adam and Eve, as well as
that of Jesus, is a miracle. God
excluded their creation from the law of
birth. Although currently entangled in
materialistic notions, science will one
day have to attribute the origin of life
to a Divine miracle. Besides, it is
highly questionable whether it is
scientific to label as myth the beliefs
or concepts or events which the sciences
are unable to explain
Sciences
‘walk’ on the feet of theories and
develop through ‘trial and error’ to
investigate those theories. There are
numerous established facts which
sciences once regarded as false, just as
what were once believed to be
established facts are now known as
fallacies. Also, there are many other
things whose existence we accept
unquestionably but cannot establish
scientifically. Denial of the miracles
is unscientific insofar as such a denial
is a judgment or conclusion which must
be based on concrete proof. No one can
deny, whether basing on sciences or not,
the miracles of the Prophet Muhammad,
upon him be peace and blessings.
In
order to decide something as
reasonable or not, whose intellect
will serve as a judge?
Some
may regard miracles as unreasonable.
However, the reason or intellect has no
capacity to grasp everything in
existence. Second, there are not two
persons in the world who have the same
intellectual capacity. That is, there is
no one who has the same intellectual
capacity with another. So, in order to
decide something as reasonable or not,
whose intellect will serve as a judge?
The Qur’an declares: Whomsoever We
will, we raise in degrees. Over every
man of knowledge is one who knows better
(12:76).
God
the Almighty is not bound by the
laws He has established for the
operation of the universe.
Therefore, whenever He wishes, He
can change those laws or can act and
create without the means of any
laws.
Thirdly,
the magnificent order, harmony and
purposefulness in existence decisively
point to the One Who has an absolute
knowledge, will and power. That One, God
the Creator, disposes existence however
He wishes. He is not bound by the laws
He has established for the operation of
the universe. Therefore, whenever He
wishes, He can change those laws or can
act and create without the means of any
laws. So, what behooves man’s
intellect is to discover those laws. God
has not given man the intellect so that
he should judge His acts. The capacity
of the intellect is limited, therefore
something limited cannot judge the
infinite.
The
finer or more refined matter is, the
more speedy time and movement is.
Time
varies or changes according to the
dimensions of existence and places. For
example, the extend of time is not the
same in the world and other planets.
Also, the finer or more refined matter
is, the more speedy time and movement
is. For example, his spirit moves much
faster than man himself. Also, the
imagining faculty can travel through all
spheres within a few seconds.
All
the physical and intellectual powers
and capacities are included in a
single, absolute Power. If that
Power is able to whatever It wishes,
then why should we not believe in
miracles?
Again,
as people vary from each other according
to the power of each, there is also a
great difference between the capacities
of species. Man is much more powerful
than an ant or bee but there are some
things which an ant or bee does easily
while a man cannot. Also, invisible
things or beings like angels and jinn,
an even storms and gales, may be much
more powerful than human beings. So, all
the physical and intellectual powers and
capacities are included in a single,
absolute Power. If that Power is able to
whatever It wishes, then why should we
not believe in miracles?
What
is unreasonable or unscientific is
to deny miracles, not to affirm
them.
We
witness, even experience, certain events
that we regard as miraculous. Many
things occur that we cannot explain with
the law of causality. Furthermore,
physics asserts today that whatever
exists is a wave in continuous motion
and therefore it is not possible to say
that a second later its existence will
be in the same state as it is in now.
So, the law of causality is only a veil
before the Divine operations so that
people do not directly attribute to God
certain disagreeable things and events.
Therefore, what is unreasonable or
unscientific is to deny miracles, not to
affirm them.
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