Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 622
UNVEILING OF THE ‘UNSEEN' BY THE QURAN - A HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE alone. The very making of these prophecies at the time they were made is in itself a miracle. 12. Seldom can history present such examples of a defending few, as powerless and vulnerable as the Muslims were while they were engaged in the digging of the trench, day in and day out, borne down with hunger and fatigue. . That was the time when the adversity of the Muslim cause could sink no further. It was then that Muhammadsa spoke the historic words which history could not create, they created history. . To predict such victories at a time such as this could either be the ravings of a madman or the proclamation of. God from the lips of a great Prophetsa. He was the wisest of all the wise that ever lived, 'mad' he was certainly not. If ever a prophet was blessed to be a Divine oracle, it was he. . His was the mouth and his were the lips which shaped destinies and pronounced decrees as God spoke to him and he spoke for God. . As has been pointed out earlier the purpose of this exercise is not to present an exhaustive study of all the prophecies of the Holy Quran and the Holy Prophets. We are only attempting to present to the reader some specific prophecies with wider impact. Having discussed some of them which related to the lifetime of the Holy Prophetsa and the period which immediately followed, we now turn to another category of prophecies which relate to a comparatively distant future. It is difficult to decide where to begin but perhaps it would not be inappropriate to begin with the discovery of the Americas and the extension of the known world. The following are the relevant verses: 584 وَإِذَا الْأَرْضُ مُدَّتْ * وَالْقَتْ مَا فِيْهَا وَتَخَلَّتْ * وَاَذِنَتْ لِرَبِّهَا 84:4-6 * وَحُقَّتْ