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of water hegan to wax and flow, so that a large number of his Companions drank their fill (Bokhari, Bab shuribal Barkati wal mauil. Mubarakih). Or, at a time of scarcity of food, a small quantity of it sufficed for a large number of people (Bokhari, Bab Ghazwatul. Khandaq. ) All these are instances of iqtadari miracles which God showed at the hand of. His beloved Prophet. . A large number of similar iqtadari miracles is also to be seen in the life of the Promised Messiah. For instance, he placed his hand on some sick man in agony, and merely from the touch of his hand the man recovered from the disease. Or, under the imperative need of some emergency, he thrust his finger, into a small quantity of food, and it sufficed for a large number of people. As has been stated in the Holy Quran, the source of all miraculous powers is only God, and without sanction from Him no prophet or Apostle has the power, in his own person, to show any miracle (Sura Momin, verse 79); and though it is not for the Apostles of God to go about showing miracles, it is nevertheless a sunnat with God that, in order to invest the faith of his devoted servants with additional and greater strength of conviction, or to show them the way to a deeper comprehension, He shows extraordinary Signs at their 63