Imam Al-Sadiq

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HIS MIRACULOUS ACTS
Indeed, Allah, the Exalted, has ordered His creatures to know Him and to worship Him after
they have known Him: "And I have not created the Jinn and the men except that they should
serve Me."(281) His creatures indicate His existence. The pretty creation and the untied
regulation indicate His Oneness. He has created a guide from their own selves to show them
the way to all things. This guide is reason. However, reason by itself is unable to know the
methods of the worship of Allah nor the qualities of His obedience, for this reason Allah
should teach His creatures how to worship and obey Him. As Allah has ordered His creatures
to worship and to obey Him, then it is incumbent on Him to send someone to them to guide
them to what He has wanted and to make them know what He has ordered.
It is not right for reason to believe in the person who claims Prophethood without a proof or a
miracle. So, it was incumbent on the prophets to produce evidence for their missions. We do
not regard the person as a sent prophet unless he has a strong proof.
What is the Miracle?
This question is worthy of care and thinking. That is because the correctness of Prophethood
depends on the correctness of the proof I think that the answer of this is very easy, for there
are many verses in the Glorious Koran about the prophets and the messengers. For example,
the miracles of Musa (Moses) were the white hand and the rod, the miracles of 'Isa (Jesus)
were healing the blind and the leprous, and bring the dead to life. And the miracle of
Mohammed, may Allah bless him and his family, was the Koran itself When you consider
these miracles carefully, you will know that the normal person is unable to bring something
like them even if he has power and knowledge. Now, we may ask: Who has the ability and
knowledge to make the fire comfort and peace? Who has the ability and knowledge to cut the
birds into pieces, put them on the mountains, and summon them to come as perfect birds
before him? Who has the ability and knowledge to make his hand white without evil
whenever he wants? Who has the ability and knowledge to make his rod walk and to eat what
the magicians do? Who has the ability and knowledge to heal the blind and the leprous and to
bring the dead to life? Who has the ability and knowledge to determine out of dust the form of
a bird and to breath into it knowledge and to create a book like the Koran in all its
characteristics? Through these things, you understand the difference between magic and the
miracle. Worth mentioning, the miracle happens not according to the natural laws; it should
be something possible in itself, for the impossible things in themselves do not occur, and it
should be done by the unique persons who summon people to worship Allah, the Most High,