Three Questions by a Christian and their Answers — Page 33
33 was one of great hardship, despair and misery for Islam, and how the prophecy made at that time was diametrically opposed to prevailing conditions, and how it was beyond all imagination and conjecture, and was, in fact, an outright impossibility, and then casts an unprejudiced look at the history of Islam—which is accessible to friend and foe alike—he will see how clearly this prophecy was fulfilled, how powerfully it moved hearts, and how it manifested it- self far and wide with all its might and power; he will then be obliged to admit that this is most certainly a miracle to which he himself is a witness, and he will remain in no doubt about it whatsoever. The second miracle of the Holy Quran, which we can per- ceive and witness in our own time, is the marvellous transformation of the Companions of the Holy Prophet sa , through their submission to the Holy Quran and under the influence of the Holy Prophet’s sa companionship. When we look at the kind of people they were and how they behaved before they accepted Islam, and how they were transformed by the company of the Holy Prophet sa and by submission to the Holy Quran, and how, in respect of their morals, their beliefs, their behaviour, their demeanour, their conduct, and all their practices, they rid themselves of their evil condi- tion and entered into a pure and immaculate state; and when we look at the wonderful influence which brought a strange light and radiance to their rusty beings, we have to concede that this change was indeed miraculous and it was brought about specially by the Hand of God, as He says in