The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam — Page 89
88 Ā'ĪNA-E-KAMĀLĀT-E-ISLĀM―DĀFI‘UL-WASĀWIS of those with superficial insight, there may not appear to be a simi- larity in creation. It was for this very reason that the rod of AUTHOR'S MARGIN NOTE Hadrat Mūsā [Moses], peace be on him, Powerful miracles remain despite the fact that it became a serpent inferior in rank to the direct works of God Almighty many times, remained just a rod in the end, (without intermediaries). and the birds of Ḥadrat Isä [Jesus], despite the fact that their miraculous flight is proved from the Noble Quran, were, after all, only clay and earth and nowhere does God Almighty say that they also became alive. Yet the miraculous Signs of our Holy Prophet, may peace and the blessings of Allah be upon him, were infused with more Divine power than all others because the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was the perfect and greatest and loftiest and most complete example of the glorious manifestations of God. This is why we are unable to measure the miracles of Divine power of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, with the help of any human scale. Nevertheless, we believe that here, too, something must necessarily be concealed that differentiates between the work of Allah, glorified be His eminence, and the actions of His Messenger, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. AUTHOR'S MARGIN NOTE Miracles are manifested by the men of God at the stage of liqā. My point by all these statements is that when someone has been granted the stage of liqā [communion], he inevitably mani- fests Divine acts when an upsurge of this stage [of liqā] takes place. Anyone who spends some part of his life in the close company of such a person unavoidably witnesses something of these Signs of Divine power. This is because, during the upsurge of this condition, such a one reflectively manifests the attributes of God, so much so that his mercy becomes the mercy of God Almighty, and his wrath becomes the wrath of God Almighty. Many a time he says, even without a prayer, that such a thing should come into being and it does come into being. If he looks upon someone with anger, such a