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21-06-10, 11:44
The Nineteenth Letter(Part 15)
THE TWELVTH SIGN:
The following three significant examples are connected to THE ELEVENTH SIGN [Miracles Concerning Rocks].
FIRST EXAMPLE:
"When you threw, it was not your act, but Allah's." [Al Qur'an 8:17]
As established through the researches of all interpreters and the reports of all narration scholars, this verse refers to the following incident. At the battle of Badr, Allah's Messenger (ASW) threw a handful of earth and small stones at the army of the unbelievers, saying, 'May your faces be deformed!" That handful of earth penetrated into the eyes of each unbeliever, as the words 'May your faces be deformed!" was heard by every one of them; they became preoccupied with the dust in their eyes and had to retreat, although they were the ones attacking. Narration scholars, including -above all- Muslim, report that at the battle of Hunayn, as well as at Badr, Allah's Messenger (ASW) again threw a handful of earth at the enemy, saying, 'May your faces be deformed!" By Allah's permission, each one of them was hit with a handful of earth and had to retreat, being preoccupied with the earth in his eyes. As these extraordinary incidents are beyond the ability of man and of material causes, the Qur'an declares,
"When you threw, it was not your act, but Allah's." [Al Qur'an 8:17]
SECOND EXAMPLE: Narrated in accurate books of narration, primarily Bukhari and Muslim: During the battle of Khaybar, a Jewess roasted a goat and poisoned it with a very strong poison, and then sent it to the Messenger of Allah (ASW). When his Companions began to eat it, the Prophet (ASW) suddenly said, "Raise your hands! It tells me that it is poisoned." Everyone withdrew from the table. But Bishr b. al-Baira', who had eaten only a morsel of it, died from the effect of the poison. Allah's Messenger (ASW) sent for the Jewess, whose name was Zaynab, and asked her why she had done so. The inauspicious woman said, "I considered that if you were a prophet it would not harm you; and if you were a king, I would save the people from you." According to some narrations, the Prophet (AW) did not have her put to death; according to others, he did. Some researchers have concluded that he did not have her put to death, but left her to the family of Bishr to be killed (i.e., according to the Law of Reciprocity (Kisas) He left the decision to the family). Now examine a few points that demonstrate the miraculousness of this extraordinary incident:
FIRSTAccording to one narration, some Companions also heard the goat speaking.
SECONDAccording to another report, Allah's Messenger (ASW) said, "Say Bismillah (in Allah's Name), then eat; poison will not affect you." Although Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani does not accept this report, others do.
THIRDAlthough those treacherous Jews tried to harm Allah's Messenger (ASW) and his close Companions, the warning of the Prophet (ASW) proved true, and their plot was uncovered and brought to naught. And when that blessed being, the Prophet (ASW), from whom the Companions never heard an untrue statement, said, ''This goat tells me that..., " everyone believed in him with such a sure conviction that as if they themselves had heard the goat.
THIRD EXAMPLE:Three instances of another miracle that resembles the white hand and the staff of Moses.
FIRST Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal (RA), after amending, reports from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (RA): Allah's Messenger gave Qatada b. an-Nu'man (RA) a stick on a dark, rainy night, saying, ''This stick will light up your surroundings. When you arrive home, you will see a black shadow, which will be Satan. Drive him away." Qatada went home with the stick emitting light like the white hand of Moses. There he saw the described person and drove him away.
SECONDUkkasha b. Muhassin al-Asadi (RA) had his sword broken while fighting in the great battle of Badr, which was itself a source of wonders. Allah's Messenger (ASW) gave him a stick in place of his broken' sword and told him to fight with it. All at once, by Allah's permission, the stick became a long, white sword. He fought with it, and kept it on him until he was martyred at the battle of al-Yamama. This incident is certain, because, throughout his lifetime, he was proud of this sword, and the sword was widely known as "the aid."
THIRDAmended and reported by Ibn Abd alBarr (RA), a celebrated scholar known as "the Scholar of the Century ": At the battle of Uhud, Abdullah b. Jahsh (RA), a cousin of Allah's Messenger (ASW), had his sword broken. Allah's Messenger (ASW) gave him a stick, which turned in his hands into a sword. He fought with it, and after the battle, it remained a sword as a product of miracle. Ibn Sayyid an-Nas (RA) reports that Abdullah some time later sold it to a man called Bugha at-Turki for two hundred liras. Thus these two swords were the results of miracles like the staff of Moses (AS). Although the staff of Moses (AS) did not retain its miraculous properties after the death of Moses (AS), these miraculously produced swords remained as swords.
THIRTEENTH SIGN:
[Miracles related to the healing of the ill].
Another kind of miracle of Muhammad (ASW), a mutawatir one with various examples, is the healing of ill and wounded people by his auspicious breath. This kind of miracle of the Prophet (ASW) is, as a whole, mutawatir in meaning. Certain single events of this kind are also regarded as mutawatir in meaning; as for the rest, although they are separate incidents, they have been amended and related by discerning leaders of the science of prophetic narration. Out of many, we will mention here only a few examples of this kind.
FIRST EXAMPLE:As reported in Shifa ash-Sharif of Qadi lyad (RA) by numerous channels and with an exalted chain of transmitters from Sa'd b. Abi Waqqas (RA, one of the ten Companions given the glad tidings of Paradise, a servant and a military commander of the Prophet (ASW), the commander-in-chief of the Muslim army during the reing of Umar (RA), and the conqueror of Iran): "I was beside Allah's Messenger in the battle of Uhud. He shot arrows until his bow was broken. Then he began giving his arrows to me. Each time he gave me a featherless arrow, he ordered me to shoot it, which I did, and it flew just like one with feathers, piercing an unbeliever's body. In the course of this, Qatada b. an-Nu'man was hit by an arrow, and one of his eyeballs poked.
Allah's Messenger, with his auspicious blessed hand, placed the eyeball back in its socket. The eye healed at once, as if nothing had happened to it, and became even better than the other one. " This incident became so famous that when one of the grandsons of Qatada came to Umar b. Abdul-Aziz (RA), he presented himself with the following words in poetic form: "I am the son of that person whose poked eyeball was placed in its socket by the Messenger of Allah and became the best eye. " This is also reported through an authentic narration: In the battle of Yawm az-Ziqarad, Abu Qatada (RA) was hit in the face with an arrow. Allah's Messenger (ASW) wiped his face with his auspicious hand. Abu Qatada says, "I never felt the pain, nor did the wound fester. "
SECOND EXAMPLE: Reported in accurate books, above all Bukhari and Muslim: Allah's Messenger (ASW) had appointed Ali (RA) b. Abi Talib as the flag-holder at the battle of Khaybar, but Ali (RA) had been suffering severely from sore eyes. Allah's Messenger (ASW) applied his healing saliva to his eyes, and at the same moment, the pain ceased and his eyes became much better. The following morning, Ali (RA) conquered Khaybar using the very heavy iron gate of the citadel that he had torn away as a shield. In the same battle, Salama b. al-Aqwa (RA) had his leg cut by a sword, and Allah's Messenger (ASW) healed it by breathing on him
THIRD EXAMPLE: Authorities on the Prophet's biography, above all, Nasa'i, report from Uthman b. Hunayf (RA): "A blind man came to the Messenger of Allah and said, 'Pray for my eyes to open. ' Allah's Messenger said, 'Go, make ablution, and then pray two rek'ats, and say, [O Allah, I ask Thee, while turning toward Thee, for the sake of the Prophet Muhammad, the Prophet of Mercy. O Muhammad, I turn toward your Lord, for your sake and through you, asking that He (Allah swt) uncover my sight. O Allah, make him my intercessor.] ' He departed to do what he had been told. When he came back, his eyes had already been opened. "
FOURTH EXAMPLE: Ibn Wahab (RA), one of the great imams, reports: When Mu'awwidh b. Afra' (RA), one of the fourteen martyrs of the battle of Badr, was fighting with Abu Jahl. The accursed Abu Jahl cut off one of his hands. Mu'awwidh took his cut-hand in the other and came to Allah's Messenger (ASW), who stuck it to his wrist, applied his blessed saliva to it and healed it. He then turned back to battle and fought until he was martyred. Also reported by Imam Jalil b. Wahab: In the same battle, Hubayb b. Yasaf (RA) received such a sword blow on the shoulder that it seemed as if his shoulder had been divided into two. Allah's Messenger (ASW) stuck his arm to his shoulder, breathed on him, and the wound healed. Although these two incidents are separate and individually reported, they can be regarded as having definetely occurred because they have been amended by such an imam like Ibn Wahab (RA), and taken place in a battle that itself was a spring of wonders.
Moreover, many similar events have occurred resembling these two incidents. In fact, there are a thousand examples that have been proved through authentic narrations, showing that the auspicious hands of the Messenger (ASW) healed all the wounds that they touched.
A Passage Worthy of Being Written in Gold and Diamonds: This has been mentioned before. The fact that small rocks glorify and praise Allah (SWT) in the Prophet's hand (ASW); that a little amount of soil and small stones become like cannon balls in his palm and put the enemy to rout through the mystery of
"When you threw, it was not your act, but Allah's." [Al Qur'an 8:17] ;
that he divides the moon into two with a gesture of his finger as related in the verse:
"And the moon split," [Al Qur'an 54:1] ;
that water runs like a fountain from the ten fingers of the same hand and satisfies an army; that the same hand becomes a cure for the ill and the wounded- all this shows how wondrous a miracle of Power his blessed hand is. For friends, the palm of this hand is, as it were, a little mosque of the Most Holy -even if stones enter it they praise and glorify Allah. For enemies, it is a miniature arsenal of the Lord in which soil and rocks become bombs in it. For the ill and the wounded, it is a little pharmacy of the Most Merciful and a cure for every wound it touches. When it rises with wrath, it divides the moon and give it the shape of hemispheres.When it gesticulates with grace, it resembles a fountain of Mercy with ten spigots giving abundant water. Since it is only the hand of this being (ASW) that is the object of such magnificent miracles, will it not be obvious how highly he is accepted in the sight of the Creator of the universe, how truthful he is in his cause, and how fortunate are those who have taken the oath of allegiance to the owner of that hand?
THE TWELVTH SIGN:
The following three significant examples are connected to THE ELEVENTH SIGN [Miracles Concerning Rocks].
FIRST EXAMPLE:
"When you threw, it was not your act, but Allah's." [Al Qur'an 8:17]
As established through the researches of all interpreters and the reports of all narration scholars, this verse refers to the following incident. At the battle of Badr, Allah's Messenger (ASW) threw a handful of earth and small stones at the army of the unbelievers, saying, 'May your faces be deformed!" That handful of earth penetrated into the eyes of each unbeliever, as the words 'May your faces be deformed!" was heard by every one of them; they became preoccupied with the dust in their eyes and had to retreat, although they were the ones attacking. Narration scholars, including -above all- Muslim, report that at the battle of Hunayn, as well as at Badr, Allah's Messenger (ASW) again threw a handful of earth at the enemy, saying, 'May your faces be deformed!" By Allah's permission, each one of them was hit with a handful of earth and had to retreat, being preoccupied with the earth in his eyes. As these extraordinary incidents are beyond the ability of man and of material causes, the Qur'an declares,
"When you threw, it was not your act, but Allah's." [Al Qur'an 8:17]
SECOND EXAMPLE: Narrated in accurate books of narration, primarily Bukhari and Muslim: During the battle of Khaybar, a Jewess roasted a goat and poisoned it with a very strong poison, and then sent it to the Messenger of Allah (ASW). When his Companions began to eat it, the Prophet (ASW) suddenly said, "Raise your hands! It tells me that it is poisoned." Everyone withdrew from the table. But Bishr b. al-Baira', who had eaten only a morsel of it, died from the effect of the poison. Allah's Messenger (ASW) sent for the Jewess, whose name was Zaynab, and asked her why she had done so. The inauspicious woman said, "I considered that if you were a prophet it would not harm you; and if you were a king, I would save the people from you." According to some narrations, the Prophet (AW) did not have her put to death; according to others, he did. Some researchers have concluded that he did not have her put to death, but left her to the family of Bishr to be killed (i.e., according to the Law of Reciprocity (Kisas) He left the decision to the family). Now examine a few points that demonstrate the miraculousness of this extraordinary incident:
FIRSTAccording to one narration, some Companions also heard the goat speaking.
SECONDAccording to another report, Allah's Messenger (ASW) said, "Say Bismillah (in Allah's Name), then eat; poison will not affect you." Although Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani does not accept this report, others do.
THIRDAlthough those treacherous Jews tried to harm Allah's Messenger (ASW) and his close Companions, the warning of the Prophet (ASW) proved true, and their plot was uncovered and brought to naught. And when that blessed being, the Prophet (ASW), from whom the Companions never heard an untrue statement, said, ''This goat tells me that..., " everyone believed in him with such a sure conviction that as if they themselves had heard the goat.
THIRD EXAMPLE:Three instances of another miracle that resembles the white hand and the staff of Moses.
FIRST Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal (RA), after amending, reports from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (RA): Allah's Messenger gave Qatada b. an-Nu'man (RA) a stick on a dark, rainy night, saying, ''This stick will light up your surroundings. When you arrive home, you will see a black shadow, which will be Satan. Drive him away." Qatada went home with the stick emitting light like the white hand of Moses. There he saw the described person and drove him away.
SECONDUkkasha b. Muhassin al-Asadi (RA) had his sword broken while fighting in the great battle of Badr, which was itself a source of wonders. Allah's Messenger (ASW) gave him a stick in place of his broken' sword and told him to fight with it. All at once, by Allah's permission, the stick became a long, white sword. He fought with it, and kept it on him until he was martyred at the battle of al-Yamama. This incident is certain, because, throughout his lifetime, he was proud of this sword, and the sword was widely known as "the aid."
THIRDAmended and reported by Ibn Abd alBarr (RA), a celebrated scholar known as "the Scholar of the Century ": At the battle of Uhud, Abdullah b. Jahsh (RA), a cousin of Allah's Messenger (ASW), had his sword broken. Allah's Messenger (ASW) gave him a stick, which turned in his hands into a sword. He fought with it, and after the battle, it remained a sword as a product of miracle. Ibn Sayyid an-Nas (RA) reports that Abdullah some time later sold it to a man called Bugha at-Turki for two hundred liras. Thus these two swords were the results of miracles like the staff of Moses (AS). Although the staff of Moses (AS) did not retain its miraculous properties after the death of Moses (AS), these miraculously produced swords remained as swords.
THIRTEENTH SIGN:
[Miracles related to the healing of the ill].
Another kind of miracle of Muhammad (ASW), a mutawatir one with various examples, is the healing of ill and wounded people by his auspicious breath. This kind of miracle of the Prophet (ASW) is, as a whole, mutawatir in meaning. Certain single events of this kind are also regarded as mutawatir in meaning; as for the rest, although they are separate incidents, they have been amended and related by discerning leaders of the science of prophetic narration. Out of many, we will mention here only a few examples of this kind.
FIRST EXAMPLE:As reported in Shifa ash-Sharif of Qadi lyad (RA) by numerous channels and with an exalted chain of transmitters from Sa'd b. Abi Waqqas (RA, one of the ten Companions given the glad tidings of Paradise, a servant and a military commander of the Prophet (ASW), the commander-in-chief of the Muslim army during the reing of Umar (RA), and the conqueror of Iran): "I was beside Allah's Messenger in the battle of Uhud. He shot arrows until his bow was broken. Then he began giving his arrows to me. Each time he gave me a featherless arrow, he ordered me to shoot it, which I did, and it flew just like one with feathers, piercing an unbeliever's body. In the course of this, Qatada b. an-Nu'man was hit by an arrow, and one of his eyeballs poked.
Allah's Messenger, with his auspicious blessed hand, placed the eyeball back in its socket. The eye healed at once, as if nothing had happened to it, and became even better than the other one. " This incident became so famous that when one of the grandsons of Qatada came to Umar b. Abdul-Aziz (RA), he presented himself with the following words in poetic form: "I am the son of that person whose poked eyeball was placed in its socket by the Messenger of Allah and became the best eye. " This is also reported through an authentic narration: In the battle of Yawm az-Ziqarad, Abu Qatada (RA) was hit in the face with an arrow. Allah's Messenger (ASW) wiped his face with his auspicious hand. Abu Qatada says, "I never felt the pain, nor did the wound fester. "
SECOND EXAMPLE: Reported in accurate books, above all Bukhari and Muslim: Allah's Messenger (ASW) had appointed Ali (RA) b. Abi Talib as the flag-holder at the battle of Khaybar, but Ali (RA) had been suffering severely from sore eyes. Allah's Messenger (ASW) applied his healing saliva to his eyes, and at the same moment, the pain ceased and his eyes became much better. The following morning, Ali (RA) conquered Khaybar using the very heavy iron gate of the citadel that he had torn away as a shield. In the same battle, Salama b. al-Aqwa (RA) had his leg cut by a sword, and Allah's Messenger (ASW) healed it by breathing on him
THIRD EXAMPLE: Authorities on the Prophet's biography, above all, Nasa'i, report from Uthman b. Hunayf (RA): "A blind man came to the Messenger of Allah and said, 'Pray for my eyes to open. ' Allah's Messenger said, 'Go, make ablution, and then pray two rek'ats, and say, [O Allah, I ask Thee, while turning toward Thee, for the sake of the Prophet Muhammad, the Prophet of Mercy. O Muhammad, I turn toward your Lord, for your sake and through you, asking that He (Allah swt) uncover my sight. O Allah, make him my intercessor.] ' He departed to do what he had been told. When he came back, his eyes had already been opened. "
FOURTH EXAMPLE: Ibn Wahab (RA), one of the great imams, reports: When Mu'awwidh b. Afra' (RA), one of the fourteen martyrs of the battle of Badr, was fighting with Abu Jahl. The accursed Abu Jahl cut off one of his hands. Mu'awwidh took his cut-hand in the other and came to Allah's Messenger (ASW), who stuck it to his wrist, applied his blessed saliva to it and healed it. He then turned back to battle and fought until he was martyred. Also reported by Imam Jalil b. Wahab: In the same battle, Hubayb b. Yasaf (RA) received such a sword blow on the shoulder that it seemed as if his shoulder had been divided into two. Allah's Messenger (ASW) stuck his arm to his shoulder, breathed on him, and the wound healed. Although these two incidents are separate and individually reported, they can be regarded as having definetely occurred because they have been amended by such an imam like Ibn Wahab (RA), and taken place in a battle that itself was a spring of wonders.
Moreover, many similar events have occurred resembling these two incidents. In fact, there are a thousand examples that have been proved through authentic narrations, showing that the auspicious hands of the Messenger (ASW) healed all the wounds that they touched.
A Passage Worthy of Being Written in Gold and Diamonds: This has been mentioned before. The fact that small rocks glorify and praise Allah (SWT) in the Prophet's hand (ASW); that a little amount of soil and small stones become like cannon balls in his palm and put the enemy to rout through the mystery of
"When you threw, it was not your act, but Allah's." [Al Qur'an 8:17] ;
that he divides the moon into two with a gesture of his finger as related in the verse:
"And the moon split," [Al Qur'an 54:1] ;
that water runs like a fountain from the ten fingers of the same hand and satisfies an army; that the same hand becomes a cure for the ill and the wounded- all this shows how wondrous a miracle of Power his blessed hand is. For friends, the palm of this hand is, as it were, a little mosque of the Most Holy -even if stones enter it they praise and glorify Allah. For enemies, it is a miniature arsenal of the Lord in which soil and rocks become bombs in it. For the ill and the wounded, it is a little pharmacy of the Most Merciful and a cure for every wound it touches. When it rises with wrath, it divides the moon and give it the shape of hemispheres.When it gesticulates with grace, it resembles a fountain of Mercy with ten spigots giving abundant water. Since it is only the hand of this being (ASW) that is the object of such magnificent miracles, will it not be obvious how highly he is accepted in the sight of the Creator of the universe, how truthful he is in his cause, and how fortunate are those who have taken the oath of allegiance to the owner of that hand?