Some Hidden Pearls — Page 51
possesses no such power. This is exactly why the Holy Quran: says "The Signs and. Miracles remain in the power of Allah" (Sur-i-An'am); Allah shows them, whenever. He deems fit; at the hands of His Apostles, and in whatever manner He deems appropriate to the occasion. At the same time, however, it is also a Divine Sunnat, the. Divine Way, that He sometimes momentarily invests this power in His Apostles and Prophets as happened in the case of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, in the miracle known as the splitting of the moon; or, again, in the course of the Battle of Badr, when the Holy Prophet scooped up from the earth a handful of pebbles and dust, and flung it at the enemy ranged up on the battle-field in seried ranks. In both cases a gesture, on the part of the Holy. Prophet set in motion a rapid chain of reactions, which showed itself in a miraculous result, not achievable by any human agency. Miracles of this kind in Islamic terminology are called Iqtadari miracles, being a kind of extraordinary exception 51