Blessings of Prayer — Page 17
17 the marvels that have been displayed by the saints to this day. And, more often than not, it is through prayers that the supernatural signs of Divine Omnipotence are manifested. Have you any notion what was the strange event that occurred in the wasteland of Arabia when hun- dreds of thousands of the dead were revived within a few days, and those who had been misguided through generations exhibited Divine complexion, and those who were blind began to see, and those who had been dumb began to utter words of Divine wisdom, and the world underwent a revolution which no eye had seen before and no ear had heard of. Do you know how all this came about? It was the supplications during dark nights of one who had lost himself in God which caused a revolution in the world, and showed such wonders as could never have been expected from that Unlettered and Helpless one [the Holy Prophet sa ]. 8 8 Send down Thy blessings and peace, O Allah, on him and his people according to the amount of pain and anguish he felt for his umma, and pour down upon him the light of Thy mercy forever. [Publishers]