The Miracles of Muhammad (part 1)

---

Apart from the greatest miracle given to him,
the Quran, Prophet Muhammad performed many physical miracles witnessed by his
contemporaries numbering in hundreds, and in some cases thousands.[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]
The miracle reports have reached us by a reliable and strong methods of
transmission unmatched in world history. It is as if the miracles were
performed in front of our eyes. The meticulous method of transmission is what
convinces us that Muhammad indeed performed these great miracles with divine
aid and, thus, we can believe him when he said, ‘I am God’s Messenger.’


Muhammad’s great miracles were witnessed by
thousands of believers and skeptics, following which verses of the Quran were
revealed mentioning the supernatural events. The Quran made some miracles
eternal by etching them in the conscious of the believers. The ancient
detractors would simply remain silent when these verses were recited. Had
these miracles not taken place, they would have seized the moment to scandalize
it and belie Muhammad. But rather, the opposite took place. The believers
grew more certain of the truth of Muhammad and the Quran. The fact that the
faithful grew stronger in their faith and the silence of the unbelievers and
not denying their occurrence is acknowledgment from both that the miracles took
place exactly as the Quran describes.


In this section we will discuss some of the
physical miracles performed by Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings of God be
upon him.

Miracles are from Divine Power




A miracle one of
the factors which further strengthens the claim of a prophet of God Miracles
should not be the soul essence of belief, as supernatural events can also take
place by the use of magic and devils. The truth of prophethood is clear and
evident in the actual message brought, as God has instilled a capability,
although limited, in humans to recognize the truth as it is, specifically in
the matter of monotheism But in order to further strengthen the argument of
Prophethood, God performed miracles at the hands of His Prophets from Moses,
Jesus to Muhammad. For this reason, God did not produce miracles upon the demand of the Meccans, but
the Wise God gave Muhammad the miracles He desired at the time He choose:


“And they say, ‘We will not believe you until you
break open for us from the ground a spring, or [until] you have a garden of date-palms
and grapes and make rivers gush forth within them in force [and abundance] or
you make the heaven fall upon us in fragments as you have claimed or you bring
God and the angels before [us] or you have a house of ornament [gold] or you
ascend into the sky. And [even then], we will not believe in your ascension
until you bring down to us a book we may read.’ ‘Say, Exalted is my Lord! Was
I ever but a human messenger?’’’ (Quran 17:90-93)


The answer was:


“And nothing has prevented Us from sending [this
message, like the earlier ones,] with miraculous signs [in its wake], save [Our
knowledge] that the people of olden times [only too often] gave the lie to
them: thus, We provided for [the tribe of] Thamud the she-camel as a visible
sign, but they wronged her. And never did We send those signs for any other
purpose than to convey a warning.” (Quran 17:59)


When demanded ostensibly, God in His wisdom knew
they would not believe, so He refused to show them miracles:


“Now they swear by God with their most solemn oaths
that if a miracle were shown to them, they would indeed believe in this [divine
writ]. Say: ‘Miracles are in the power of God alone.’ ‘And for all you know,
even if one should be shown to them, they would not believe so long as We keep
their hearts and their eyes turned [away from the truth], even as they did not
believe in it in the first instance: and [so] We shall leave them in their
overweening arrogance, blindly stumbling to and fro.’” (Quran 6:109-110)


We gather here some of the major physical
miracles performed by Prophet Muhammad.