a treatise on the miracles of muhammad part droplet vol no part d r o p l e t from the vast ocean of the miraculous qur an translations from the arabic and turkish writings of bediuzzaman said nursi the risale i noor vol no part nineteenth letter mu jizat i ahmediye risalesi a treatise on the miracles of muhammed saw part continued from droplet vol no part third sign the miracles of muhammad saw are extremely varied because his messengership is universal he has been distinguished by miracles that relate to almost all species of creation just as the supreme aide of a renowned ruler arriving with many gifts in a city where various people live will be welcomed by a representative of each people who acclaims him and bids him welcome in his own language so too when the supreme messenger of the monarch of pre and post eternity ezel and ebed sultani honored the universe by coming as an envoy to the inhabitants of the earth and brought with him the light of truth and spiritual gifts sent by the creator of the universe and derived from the realities of the whole universe each species of creation from water rocks trees animals and human beings to the moon sun and stars welcomed him and acclaimed his prophethood each in its own language and each bearing one of his miracles now it would require a voluminous work to mention all his miracles as the punctilious scholars have written many volumes concerning the proofs of his prophethood here we will briefly point out only the general category into which fall fhe miracles that are definite and accepted as accurate reports the evidences of the prophethood of muhammad saw fall into two main categories the first is called irhasat and includes the paranormal events that happened at the time of his birth or before his declaration of prophethood the second group pertains to all the remaining evidences of the prophethood and contains two subdivisions those wonders that were manifested after his departure from this world in order to confirm his prophethood and those that he exhibited during the era of his prophethood the latter has also two parts the evidences of his prophethood that became manifest in his own personality his inner and outer being his moral conduct and perfection and the miracles that related to substantial matters the last part again has two branches those concerning the qur an and spirituality and those relating to matter and creation this last branch is again divided into two categories the first involves the paranormal happenings that occured during his mission either to break the stubbornness of the unbelievers or to augment the faith of the belivers this category has twenty different sorts such as the splitting of the moon the flowing of water from the fingers the satisfying of large numbers with a little food and the speaking of trees rocks and animals each of these sons has also many instances and thus has in meaning the strength of confirmation by consensus as for the second category this includes events lying in the future that occured as he had predicted upon allah swt s instructions now starting from the last category we will summarize a list of them unfonunately i could not write as i had intended without choice i wrote as my head dictated and i could not completely conform to the order of this classification to be continued allah willing irfan alan a servant of islam
