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The Miracle is an act of God, The Quran is a word of God

The fire burns the wood. The water kills the fire. The poison is a cause of death. Why ? The answer of the last 'why' stops somewhere. An atheist will stop at the property of Matter, but a Unitarian shall stop at God. If an atheist bows down before the property of Matter, then what is the harm if religious man stops at the act of God ? Matter has no knowledge, no power, no intention. God has all the excellent attributes which one imagine. "The end of all things is unto God. He cannot be questioned for what He does. Of course, the servants can be questioned about their actions. You are given but a little knowledge. Glory to Thee, our Lord ! We know not but only that Thou hast told us. No doubt, Thou art the All-Knowing, the All-Wise." The Holy Prophet has said : "When the question goes upto God, man should stop and seek His shelter." Those who believe in the being and existence of God have to recognize this fact that God has a power, an intention, and He has a habit. They are separate from one another. Sometimes Power and Habit are confused. For example, an event which takes place against the general causes is said to be against the Law of Nature, and the heretics find an excuse of easily rejecting many such hard events as the creation of Hazrat Messieh without a father, or the Miracles of the Prophets. The habit of God is to create men and women by the well-known process of production. But it is within His power to create them without that process also. So God shows the miracles at the hands of the Prophets. They may be against the Common Habit of God, but they can not be beyond God's power. We will rather say that God some- times acts against the Known Laws at the hands of the Prophets so that their Prophet- hood may be established in the eyes of the common men. As such some act is according to Common Habit and some act is according to the Special Habit. The miracles of the Prophets are according to His Special Habit, that outwardly appear to break the known laws working in the Universe. But the Miracles are governed by the Hidden Laws of the Universe, a sphere far beyond the orbit of human sciences and senses. Consequently the Miracle is an act of God and His special habit. Our dealings with friends, masters, parents, children are different. Similarly God's matters with different servants are different. The Prophets are His distinguished servants. No one can make the sun or moon or man or a little mosquito. Similarly no one can defeat a miracle. What God can do, man cannot do. Similarly what God can speak, no one can speak. The Divine Word is that no one in the whole universe can bring such a word. You create paper flowers. But a little drop of water will spoil your flower, while by the same drop the flower of God shall become more fragrant and pretty. Man can photograph God's creatures but he cannot create them. "They can never create a fly though they may get together for that work." (The Quran). This is an act of God. When such act appears at the hand of a man (who says he is a Prophet) without conformity to the Natural laws it is a Miracle, be it from the genus of actions or from the genus of words. This is why we say miracle is not an art or a freak of science, or a sorcery, or soothsaying, or astrology or mesmerism. The arts and sciences can be learnt, but miracle cannot be learnt. The Prophets have no say in the miracles. The pen seems to be writing, but in reality the writer writes. Similarly God acts through the medium of a Prophet. That act of God is known as the Miracle of a certain Prophet. Similarly in the Miracle of Word the Prophet has no power or control. It is God who sends His Word through the medium of a Prophet. ' A Prophet cannot change the Divine Word by his own will.




		The Miracle is an act of God, The Quran is a word of God The fire burns the wood. The water kills the fire. The poison is a cause of death. Why ? The answer of the last 'why' stops somewhere. An atheist will stop at the property of Matter, but a Unitarian shall stop at God. If an atheist bows down before the property of Matter, then what is the harm if religious man stops at the act of God ? Matter has no knowledge, no power, no intention. God has all the excellent attributes which one imagine. "The end of all things is unto God. He cannot be questioned for what He does. Of course, the servants can be questioned about their actions. You are given but a little knowledge. Glory to Thee, our Lord ! We know not but only that Thou hast told us. No doubt, Thou art the All-Knowing, the All-Wise." The Holy Prophet has said : "When the question goes upto God, man should stop and seek His shelter." Those who believe in the being and existence of God have to recognize this fact that God has a power, an intention, and He has a habit. They are separate from one another. Sometimes Power and Habit are confused. For example, an event which takes place against the general causes is said to be against the Law of Nature, and the heretics find an excuse of easily rejecting many such hard events as the creation of Hazrat Messieh without a father, or the Miracles of the Prophets. The habit of God is to create men and women by the well-known process of production. But it is within His power to create them without that process also. So God shows the miracles at the hands of the Prophets. They may be against the Common Habit of God, but they can not be beyond God's power. We will rather say that God some- times acts against the Known Laws at the hands of the Prophets so that their Prophet- hood may be established in the eyes of the common men. As such some act is according to Common Habit and some act is according to the Special Habit. The miracles of the Prophets are according to His Special Habit, that outwardly appear to break the known laws working in the Universe. But the Miracles are governed by the Hidden Laws of the Universe, a sphere far beyond the orbit of human sciences and senses. Consequently the Miracle is an act of God and His special habit. Our dealings with friends, masters, parents, children are different. Similarly God's matters with different servants are different. The Prophets are His distinguished servants. No one can make the sun or moon or man or a little mosquito. Similarly no one can defeat a miracle. What God can do, man cannot do. Similarly what God can speak, no one can speak. The Divine Word is that no one in the whole universe can bring such a word. You create paper flowers. But a little drop of water will spoil your flower, while by the same drop the flower of God shall become more fragrant and pretty. Man can photograph God's creatures but he cannot create them. "They can never create a fly though they may get together for that work." (The Quran). This is an act of God. When such act appears at the hand of a man (who says he is a Prophet) without conformity to the Natural laws it is a Miracle, be it from the genus of actions or from the genus of words. This is why we say miracle is not an art or a freak of science, or a sorcery, or soothsaying, or astrology or mesmerism. The arts and sciences can be learnt, but miracle cannot be learnt. The Prophets have no say in the miracles. The pen seems to be writing, but in reality the writer writes. Similarly God acts through the medium of a Prophet. That act of God is known as the Miracle of a certain Prophet. Similarly in the Miracle of Word the Prophet has no power or control. It is God who sends His Word through the medium of a Prophet. ' A Prophet cannot change the Divine Word by his own will.

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