Why Did They Become Muslims

MIRACLES of MUHAMMAD ‘alaihis-salâm’
The following passages have been paraphrased from Mir’ât-ikâinât.
That book gives also the sources of most of the miracles
related, yet we have not written the sources. And we have
abridged most of the miracles.
There are a considerable number of witnesses testifying to the
fact that Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ is the true Prophet. Allâhu
ta’âlâ acclaims him with the following complimentary inspiration:
“Had it not been for thee, (O My beloved Messenger,) I would not
have created anything!” All beings signify not only the existence
and unity of Allâhu ta’âlâ, but also the prophethood and the
superior virtues of Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’. All the miracles,
(which are called kerâmat,) that happen through the Awliyâ
among his Ummat (Muslims) are, in actual fact, his miracles,
(which are called mu’jiza, as we have explained earlier). For
kerâmats happen through people who follow him and adapt
themselves to him. In fact, because all the other Prophets ‘alaihimus-salawâtu
wa-t-taslîmât’ yearned to be among his Ummat
(Muslims), or, rather, because all of them were created from his
nûr (light, halo), their miracles, too, may be said to be
Muhammad’s ‘alaihis-salâm’ miracles. Qasîda-i-Burda, by Imâm-
Busayrî [d. 695 (1295 C.E.), Egypt], is a pulchritudinous expression
of this fact.
With respect to time, the miracles of Muhammad ‘alaihissalâm’
fall into three categories:
In the first category are those miracles that took place in the
period beginning with the creation of his blessed soul and ending
with his Bi’that, (which is the time when Allâhu ta’âlâ appointed
him His Messenger, which He notified to him through His angel
Jebrâîl ‘alaihis-salâm’).
The second category consists of those which took place within
the time from the Bi’that to his transposition to the Hereafter.
Into the third category fall his miracles that have happened
since his passing away, as well as those which will take place till the
end of the world.
Miracles in the first category are called Irhâs, i.e. the
beginners. Each category is divided into two classes: Miracles that
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