Life of Ahmad — Page 356
THE ESSENCE OF ISLAM as 356 wounds were healed by the touch of his hand. Eyeballs gouged out during fighting were properly set in again by his blessed hand. And there are many more similar miracles which were wrought by him through his personal power with which was mixed a secret Divine power. A Brahmu-Sam a jist, a philosopher and a naturalist might deny all these miracles. They cannot help it; because they cannot understand how the attributes of God are reflected in man so let them laugh, because they have no experience of these matters and they have not reached any stage of spiritual maturity. Not only are they in a state of imperfection but they are content to die in the same defective state. More pitiable by far is the plight of Christians who, having heard of some similar, though less powerful, miracles of Jesus as , have taken him for God. They say that his raising of the dead, his cleansing of the lepers and his healing those sick of the palsy were due to his own power and not the result of his prayers. And this, in their opinion, is a proof of his really being the son of God Himself. But it is a matter of regret that these poor people do not know that if such miracles alone can make man God, our Holy Prophet sa had a much better right to divinity than Jesus as ; because Jesus as did not show so many miracles of this class. The Holy