The Life of The Prophet Muhammad(pbuh): The Miracles of The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
The Biggest and Eternal Miracle is the Qur'an
The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)’s biggest and eternal miracle is the Qur’an. The holy Qur’an proves the cause of the Prophet (PBUH) with its hundreds of verses. At the same time, the Qur’an itself is the biggest miracle of our Prophet (PBUH). It is such a miracle that thousands of expert scholars on the Qur’an proved that it is miracle from forty aspects.
We want to present one of the works of Asim Koksal which tells us about the superiority and qualities of the Qur’an:
The First Important Trust of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) to His Ummah: The Book
The prophet Muhammad (PBUH) says in His sermon of His Farewell Hajj:
“I leave behind me two things, the QURAN and the SUNNAH; and if you follow them, you will never go astray.”
According to the Qur’an, the Book (Qur’an) and the Sunnah are also two sources of guidance for Muslims that should be referred to.
In a glorious hadith, our prophet Muhammad said:
“There is no prophet that was not given miracles which people are obliged to believe in. The miracle given to me is the revelation of Allah, the Qur’an. That is why I hope that on the Judgment Day, I will be the prophet whose ummah has the most people!”
Depending on their time, every prophet had their own extraordinary deeds and miracles which prove their prophethood: transformation of Moses’ staff into a snake. Magic was popular during the time of Moses. So, with the permission of God, Moses showed a miracle which was superior to and more overwhelming than magic and forced the magicians that challenged him to believe. Medical science was popular during the time of Hz. Isaa (Jesus). So Hz. Isaa showed a miracle which was superior to and more overwhelming than medical science: He resurrected death people with the permission of God.
On the other hand, fluency and rhetoric were popular during the time of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). In order to do so, the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) brought the Qur’an as a revelation from God which is a miracle of rhetoric and fluency.
The miracles of the prophets before the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) ended with their deaths and people other than who were present at that times did not see those miracles. On the other hand, the miracle of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), which is the Qur’an, will continue to live till Doomsday.
Similar miracles which were given to the other prophets were also given to the previous ones either in the same manner or in essence. However, the miracle of Qur’an had not been given to any prophet before.
According to the narration of Abu Ubayd, a Bedouin Arab immediately prostrated upon hearing a person recite the verse;
“Therefore expound openly what thou art commanded!” (Surah Al- Hijr)
and he said: “I prostrated because of its fluency.”
“I swear that no creature can utter a similar sentence.” upon hearing the following verse from a man
“Now when they saw no hope of his (yielding), they held a conference in private…” (Surah Yusuf, 12/80)
The concubine said to Asmai, who was amazed by the fluency of her sentence and unable to refrain from saying, “By God, how fluent you are”,
Can my word be considered fluent after this?
“So We sent this inspiration to the mother of Moses: “Suckle (thy child) but when thou hast fears about him cast him, into the river, but fear not nor grieve: for We shall restore him to thee, and We shall make him one of Our messengers.” (Surah Al-Qasas, 28/7).
Indeed, this single verse contains two orders, two prohibitions and two glad tidings.
Though the Qur’an is not the only miracle of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), he considered it sufficient to mention the Qur’an only among his miracles because it is the biggest and the most fruitful one and it calls people to the religion, has proofs and witnesses and will be useful for everyone till the Doomsday from both this world and the realm of unseen.
The holy Qur’an has been given the name of the Qur’an because it contains the fruits of all books among divine ones and maybe all sciences.
As a matter of fact, God indicated this aspect of the Qur’an in the following verses: “a detailed exposition of all things.” (Surah Yusuf, 12/111), “The Book explaining all things” (Surah An-Nahl, 16/89)
The Holy Qur’an is the summary of ilm al-ladun (secret knowledge) according to the scholars of truth.
Hz Ali (RA) says: ‘I heard from the prophet Muhammad (PBUH): “You should know that some kind of dissensions will arise!” I asked “O Prophet! What is the way of escaping from those dissensions?
“It is the book of God! It contains the news of the people before and after you, it also has the judgment about you. It is a certain judgment that discriminates between the truth and falsehood; it is not a joke or void thing. God breaks the neck of person who ignores the Qur’an with his highhandedness. God leads the people who search the true way in anything other than the Qur’an astray. It is the firm rope of God! It is the Qur’an which is full of wisdom! It is the truest way! It is a book that neither futile desires can divert from the right way nor speeches can make obscure; and it is not a book which is overlooked by scientists but a book that no one gets bored by repeating much and has numerous qualities that amazes the minds. It is such a book that when a group of Jinn listened to it, they said: “We have really heard a wonderful Recital! It gives guidance to the Right, and we have believed therein…” Someone who talks depending on the Qur’an is confirmed. Someone who acts according to the Qur’an is rewarded. Someone who judges with the Qur’an is regarded to have acted with justice. Someone who invites to the Qur’an is regarded to have invited to the truth and the right way”
In another glorious hadith, the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said:
The previous books were revealed on single section and dialect (ahruf).
However, the Qur’an was revealed on:
1- Order
2- Prohibition
3- Halal
4- Haram
5- Muhkam
6- Mutashabih
7- Examples along with seven parts and seven dialects (ahruf).
Render as halal of what it says to be halal!
Render as haram of what it says to be haram!
Do whatever you have ordered by it!
Avoid things of what it prohibits!
Draw lessons from its examples!
Do whatever its muhkam verses command!
Believe in its verses that are Mutashabih (have many meanings) and say ‘We believe in whatever comes from our Lord!’
“Whoever wants wisdom should get deep in the Qur’an because the wisdom of previous and later ones is in it!” Whenever I inform you about a hadith, I can also give you a confirmatory proof of it from the book of God!”
“If the knee bonds of a camel are lost, I will definitely find it in Allah (SWT)’s book.
“No hadith of the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) whose confirmatory proof I could not find in Kitabullah (the book of God) reached me!”
When Imam Shafii was in Mecca, he said:
“Ask whatever you want from me! I will answer it from Kitabullah (the book of God)!”
“What would you say for the person who kills a beefly while in ihram?
Imam Shafii recited the verse;
“In the name of God. Take what the Messenger assigns to you! And deny yourselves that which he withholds from you!” (Surah Al-Hashr, 59/7)
And He added: A hadith of the prophet Muhammad narrated to us by Huzaifa b. Yaman states:
“After me follow Abu Bakr (RA) and Umar b. Hattab! The news about the order by Umar b. Hattab (RA) for killing the beefly by a person who is in ihram was narrated from Tariq B. Sihab”
One day, Abu Bakr b. Mujahid said:
“There is nothing in this realm that you cannot find in Kitabullah (The Qur’an)!”
He was asked: “So in which part of the Qur’an, are inns mentioned?”
He answered reciting the following verse:
“It is no fault on your part to enter houses not used for living in, which serve some (other) use for you: and Allah has knowledge of what ye reveal and what ye conceal.” (Surah An-Noor, 24/29)
He said what is meant by houses in the verse is inns.”
“What the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said exists in the Qur’an either in the same form or with a close or far meaning. Only insightful people understand this truth but not blind ones. Similarly, ambitious ones can comprehend the elaborateness and fineness in every decree of the Quran according to their views, efforts and understanding.”
“There is nothing impossible to be grasped from the Qur’an for a person whom God gives insight.”
“Only Almighty Allah knows the essence of the sciences of which the word of Allah has. After Him, the prophet Muhammad understands it. The four caliphs and important companions of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH); Hz. Abu Bakr, Hz. Umar, Hz. Uthman and Hz. Ali and others like Ibn Masud and Ibn Abbas possessed the knowledge given by God after the prophet.”
Once, when Huzayfa b. Yaman was together with Ibn Abbas, a man asked Ibn Abbas,
“Tell me the interpretation of “Ha mim ayn sin qaf” in the chapter of ash-Shura?
Ibn Abbas did not like the man’s question and kept silent; then, he turned his face away from him.
The man repeated his question.
Ibn Abbas did not answer and turned his face away from him.
The man asked the question for the third time.
Yet, Ibn Abbas did not answer.
Thereupon, Huzayfa b. Yaman said,
“I will tell you about it; it seems that he does not want to answer.”
It was sent down about a man from Ahl al-Bayt called Abdulilah or Abdullah. The verse indicates that he will settle in a city in the East situated on a river, the city (Baghdad) divided by the river, that when Allah allows their sovereignty to end and their state to cease, a fire will be sent over them at night and it will be as if nothing has been there in the morning and that their place will be invaded by tyrants and oppressors.
This information, which was recorded by Tabari, who was born in 224 (H) (about twelve centuries ago) and died in 310 (H), in his tafsir, is enough to show how miraculous and scientific profundity the Quran has and how some Companions knew about this profundity and that they knew about the interpretation of the mutashabih verses. Indeed, it was seen that this dynasty, which was represented by the regent Abdulilah in Baghdad, was eliminated as a result of the military coup staged by General Qasim and all members of the dynasty were shot to death in the twentieth century.
Ibn an-Nadim (death 378 H) explained in detail which scholars living before him interpreted the Quran, who wrote about the meanings, ambiguities, similes, vocabulary, unknown words, recital styles, points, shapes, lam letters, stopping places, enclisis, phrases, mutashabih verses, syllables, fascicles and virtues of the Quran, the number of the letters in the Quran according to the people of Madinah, Makkah, Kufa, Basra and Damascus, the abrogators and abrogated verses of the Quran, the revelation dates of the chapters and verses, the decrees of the Quran and their various meanings and who wrote which books.
Fakhruddin Razi, one of the interpreters of the Quran said,
“When I happened to say, ‘it is possible to deduce ten thousand issues from the benefits and good aspects of the chapter al-Fatiha’, some people who were jealous of me and some ignorant and obstinate people thought I was one of those who claimed things that could not be proved like themselves. When I started to write this book (Mafatih al-Ghayb), I wrote the following introduction to show that it was possible to deduce so many issues from the chapter al-Fatiha and to warn them.”
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