A TREATISE ON THE MIRACLES OF MUHAMMAD SAW, PART-7
Irfan Alan
D R O P L E T
VOL 1, NO 12, PART 4
A D R O P L E T
From the Vast Ocean of Miraculous Qur'an
Vol 1, No 12, Part 4
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MU'CIZAT-I AHMEDIYYE RISALESI (19th Letter)
A TREATISE ON THE MIRACLES OF MUHAMMAD Continued, Part-7
Ouestion: What is the benefit of citing the chain of transmission of a
narration at such a degree that even if it is not needed in the case of a
well-known, famous incident they still say,'So-and-so informed so-and-so,
etc.'?
Answer: Its benefits are many. One is that the citing of the chain shows the
concurrence of the truthful, reliable, and exacting
narration-scientists and the unanimity of the discerning authorities whose
names are included. This is as if each and every one of those
scholars and authorities puts his signature on the accuracy of the tradition,
and places his seal on it.
Question: Why were the miraculous events not transmitted in the form of
tawatur and in as many ways (channels) and with as great emphasis as the
basic injunctions (commands) of the Sacred Law (the Sharia):
Answer: Because the majority of the commands of the Sacred Law are always
needed by the majority of people for they all are applicable to each
individual. But every one need not know every miracle; even if he does, it
suffices him to hear it only once. It is, in fact, like the kind of obligation
the observance of which some will absolve the rest; it is quite enough for
miracles to be known only to some. For this reason, even if the occurrence and
reality of a miracle is established to a degree ten times greater than an
injunction of the Sacred Law, it will still come to us through one or two
narrators, whereas the injunction is narrated by ten or twenty persons.
Fourth Essential : The future events that Allah's Most Noble Messenqer
[SAW] predicted were not isolated incidents; instead he predicted general
and recurring events in a particular way. That is, in each such report, he
displayed a different aspect of one phenomenon out of several. This is why
when the narrator combines these different aspects, they may seem at variance
with realty. There are, for example, varying narrations concerning the Mahdi,
each with different details and descriptions. However, as was explained
in a section of the Twenty-Fourth Word, Allah's Messenger (SAW) gave the
tidings, relying on revelation, of a Mahdi who would come in every century to
preserve the faith of the Muslims, help them not to fall into despair in the
face of disasters, and link the hearts of the believers with the people
of the Prophet's Family (RA) that constitute a luminous chain in the world of
Islam. Similar to the Great Mahdi (AS) who is promised to come at the end of
time, one or more Mahdis from the Prophet's Family (RA), have been found in
every century. Indeed, one of them, was among the Abbasid Caliphs who were
the descendants of the Prophet's Family, and had many of the
characteristics of the Great Mahdi. The reason, then, for the apparent
variance between the different narrations (concerning Mehdis) is that the
qualities of the Great Mahdi (AS) were confused with those of the revivalists
(muceddids) who precede him.
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To be Continued Allah Willing
Irfan Alan, A Servant of Islam
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