Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 447
15 October 1906 447 15 October 1906 Prophecy is a Great Miracle Prophecies and miracles were mentioned. The Promised Messiah as said: It is known from books of the earlier Prophets that prophecy is indeed the greatest miracle. Miracles other than prophecy have many types of doubts, and they are only temporary matters. Many conjurors also do such things that leave people in awe, but no conjurors can advance in the work of prophecy. Khw a ja Kam a l-ud-D i n submitted that prophecy is a signif- icant miracle in this age because philosophers and scientists have explained some secrets about other miracles, but since they could not understand anything about prophecy and could not discover any secret about it or how a prophecy can be made scientifically, they simply rejected it, saying that there is no such thing as prophecy. Therefore, making a prophecy and proving it is the greatest means of showing miracles in this age and the worldly are powerless in this [arena]. The Promised Messiah as said: Earlier Prophets also emphasized prophecies, and the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, also made many prophecies, many of which have been fulfilled because the time for their fulfilment had come. Accordingly, he had prophesied the appearance of a great fire and mentioned all the signs and characteristics related to it, and when that prophecy had become recorded in the books