A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 78
78 serve Islam and to propagate it and to remove from its bright face the dust that has settled there as the result of the stormy thoughts of man during the latter days. ” Thus all his signs were testimonies of the truth of Islam and all his miracles were proofs of the superiority of the Holy Quran. Exalted Prince! it is difficult to relate all the miracles and signs of this prophet in the space even of a voluminous work, and they were of so many and diverse kinds that an enumeration of those categories alone under which they fell would occupy many pages, let alone the detailed narration of them. He showed moral miracles, that is, he performed such miraculous moral deeds that an intelligent person can clearly see God’s hand behind them, and these alone are sufficient proof of his truth. His courage, his valour, his affection, his sympathy, his friendship, his treatment of others and his dealings were all of a nature that every one who came in touch with him felt that a righteous man alone could possess them. His miracles also consisted in this that he was sometimes vouchsafed the knowledge of the thoughts of those who were in his company and those who witnessed this believed that this knowledge was vouchsafed to him by God. His miracles were sometimes of an authoritative nature, that is, when he said, such and such a thing shall come to pass, it happened accordingly, and when men saw that those things actually came to pass concerning which they had no hope, they felt that this man was beloved of God and that God fulfilled his words or caused His own will to