The Life & Character of the Seal of Prophets (sa) – Volume III — Page 124
Seal of the Prophets - Volume III 124 alteration is what we call a miracle. In actuality, if there is a God who created the things of this world as well as the characteristics of those things, and this God has not been deposed and dethroned from His Throne of Sovereignty; moreover, if He has not become the slave of His own law, then it must be accepted that putting matters of His Sunnat and promise aside wherein there can be no change whatsoever, in a time of dire need He can make His law which does not relate to the realm of His Sunnat or promise and take an exceptional course. Furthermore, by various hidden means, He can produce such physical alterations which apparently seem to be anomalous. This very anomaly or the unusual manifestation of this special decree of God is called a miracle. The need for a miracle is proven such as every sensible individual will realise that rational argumentation relevant to God alone cannot furnish the necessary level of faith that is needed for the spiritual life of mankind. This is because logic alone can only prove that there should be a Creator and Master of this universe. It is obvious, however, that this level of ‘should be’ is merely a state of conjecture and in order to transform it to a level of conclusive and firm belief which can be interpreted as the level of ‘is’, we require Divine Revelation and miracles. For this reason, the existence of miracles have always been intrinsically tied to prophets and messengers. Furthermore, as for those who deny Islāmic miracles, their own books are replete with the mention of miracles (the better part of which are unfortunately concocted, without proof and against the Sunnat of Allāh). Now remains the question of experience. As such, the pioneers who have narrated the miracles of the Holy Prophet sa , were all companions of the Holy Prophet sa , who spent day and night in his company. They have narrated their personal experience and obviously if the narration is authentic and the narrator is truthful and sensible, then this experience is just as acceptable as other credible experiences of this world. In the current materialistic era, although spiritual paragons are rare, whilst responding to those who object to miracles, the Holy Founder of the Aḥmadīyyah Community announced in this age: رکاتم رگہچ ےب انم و اشنن اتس �ب یارگنب زِاملغن دمحمملسو هيلع هللا ىلص “In this era, though miracles have vanished without a trace, but O you who reject Islām come and witness them at the hand of the servants of Muḥammad sa. ”