And they will stay with us forever and ever until the end of time, just as Allah said in the Qur’an they will. And they are visible from any and every part of Allah’s earth, at all times of day and night, during all weather conditions.
Only a limited number of people witnessed and experienced those “supernatural” events first hand, whereas anyone anywhere and at anytime — all of humanity for all time to come — can, does and shall witness and experience these other miracles that I am talking about: the Everyday Miracles of Islam, Muslims and the Qur’an.
Provided people have eyes to see and a clear enough mind to think rationally, as the Qur’an puts it, and they also have the necessary courage and humility to respect and accept the testimony of their own senses and minds.
But if you think about it seriously, these other miracles are no less “miraculous” for being ordinary, everyday events.
Miracles of the Parting Sea, the Splitting Moon
and the Dead Man Rising
Consider the miracle of the parting sea.
A man, Allah bless him, hits the sea with his staff and the sea parts? The sea then organizes itself into two huge “mounds” of water on either side revealing in the middle firm ground providing safe passage for this man, Musa, Alaihis Salaam, and his people?
Ordinarily speaking, how credible is a story like that?
Or consider this other event. Another man, Allah bless him, is sitting in a group with his companions, the miraculous title by which he and everyone else refers to them, under a clear night sky. A billion bright stars shimmer around a full moon in all its radiant glory.
This man, Allah bless him, then, in response to a demand by the skeptics for a sign or a miracle, points his finger at the moon and the moon splits in two halves, each half hanging by itself at either end of the horizon?
How many times did you see that happen?
But these are things that did happen, no matter how unlikely they sound.
We say they happened because the Qur’an says they happened. The first event happened in the life of Musa, Alaihis Salaam, and the second one in the life of Sayyidina Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam. They happened as truly and surely as you and I came into this world when our mothers — Allah bless them — gave birth to us.
Why We Believe in
These Big Supernatural Miracles
We know about the occurrence of these two most unlikely events — these big “supernatural” miracles if you will — because God Almighty himself told us of their occurrence in his book, the Qur’an.
And we know about, and we believe in, the equally unlikely event of Jesus, Alaihis Salaam, raising the dead for precisely the same reason: God Almighty told us about it in the Qur’an.
That most amazing book — Dhaalikal Kitaab — that he, God Almighty, not only revealed to his blessed messenger Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, but which he then also protected and preserved and transmitted down the ages, generation after generation, right down to us.
That is why we believe that those things did indeed happen — because the Qur’an said they did. And that is why we call them miracles.
We believe in them even though we were not personally and physically present on the scene when they happened. We believe in these unseen miracles because God asked us to believe in them.
All three of these events are what people would refer to as real miracles — “supernatural” occurrences as it were. Most people would also want to mystify and theologize them by calling them “religious.”
Islam and Muslims’
Gift to Jews and Christians
That is what Islam and Muslims have to offer Jews and Christians: a rousing and unstinted celebration of the lives and accomplishments of the central figures of their religions, Moses and Jesus, may Almighty God bless them both.
Here is what the world needs to ask itself: Can anyone think of a better goodwill gesture or peace offering on the part of anyone toward anyone?
And here is what the Jews and Christians need to ask themselves: If this is what Islam and Muslims are giving us, what do we owe Islam and Muslims in return?
And here is what the Muslims need to ask themselves: If this is what we are offering the world, what kind of a job did we do of informing the world about it? Just where did we go wrong?
And how can we get our act together at this stage?
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© 2006 Syed Husain Pasha
Dr. Pasha is an educator and scholar of exceptional
talent, training and experience. He can be reached at DrSyedPasha [at]
AOL [dot] com or www.IslamicSolutions.com.
