Three Questions by a Christian and their Answers — Page 36
36 The fourth miracle of the Holy Quran is its spiritual influ- ence which endures to this day, i. e. , those who follow the Holy Quran, attain stations of Divine acceptance and are blessed with Divine discourse. God hears their prayers and answers them out of His love and grace. He communicates to them some of the secrets of the unseen, just as He does to His Prophets, and He distinguishes them from His other creation with signs of His help and succour. This is a sign that will last in the Muslim umma till the Day of Judge- ment. It has continued to be manifested in the past, it lives on to this day, and is a verifiable fact. Even today there are people among the Muslims whom God blesses with His special support and honours them with pure and true reve- lations, glad-tidings and news of the unseen. Now, you who seek after truth and crave and thirst for true signs, be fair, and ponder with an unbiased mind how won- derful the signs that God Almighty has mentioned in the Holy Quran are, and how they can be seen and felt in every age! As for the miracles of earlier Prophets, they are a thing of the past and are much like fairy tales. Only God knows how authentic they really are. This is particularly true of the miracles of Jesus as men- tioned in the New Testament. Even though we allow for the fact that they have been related in the form of fables and tales and are full of exaggerations, it is still difficult to clear them of all the doubts and misgivings to which they are susceptible. Even if we were to suppose for a moment that there is no exaggeration in all that has been written in the