Why Did They Become Muslims

were seen; and those which are inferred mentally. All these
miracles are so many that it has never been possible to tally them.
Miracles in the second category are estimated to be around three
thousand. We shall relate eighty-six of them in the following
paragraphs.
1– The greatest miracle of Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ is the
Qur’ân al-kerîm. All the poets and men of literature that have
come up to today have acknowledged their shortcoming and
admiration about the poetic and semantic superiority of the
Qur’ân al-kerîm. They have not been able to rehearse a literary
piece approximating to the sublime standard of any one of its
âyats. With respect to eloquence and rhetoric, it is quite dissimilar
to the human language. A single verbal addition or excision spoils
the beauty in its phraseology and purport. Efforts to substitute
even one of its words have proven futile. Its poetic style is unlike
any one of those of Arabian poets. It informs about many a past
and present event. The more you read it or hear it, the more
enthusiasm will you feel to read or hear it. Tired as you normally
may be, you never feel bored. It is a fact established with
innumerable events experienced that reading it or listening to
someone reading it cures melancholy. Awe-strickenness or
sudden feelings of fear upon hearing it being read or recited are
not rare events, and some people have even died with its effect.
Many implacably inimical hearts became mollified when they
heard the Qur’ân al-kerîm being read or recited, and their owners
became Believers. Some enemies of Islam, particularly those
insidious heretics disguised in Muslim names, i.e. the groups
called Muattalâ, Melâhida and Qarâmita, attempted to change, to
defile, and to substitute the Qur’ân al-kerîm, yet their attempts
ended in disillusionment. The Torah and the Bible, on the other
hand, have been changed continuously, and they are still being
changed, by people. The Qur’ân al-kerîm contains information
about all scientific facts, including those that cannot be obtained
by way of experimentation, beautiful ethical principles and
methods that will equip a person with superior merits, goodnesses
that will bring happiness in this world and the next, the earliest
creatures as well as the last ones, and things from which man can
reap benefits as well as those which will cause harm, and all these
things are stated expressly or symbolically. And there are people
who can understand the symbolical statements. The Qur’ân alkerîm
is an embodiment of all the open and hidden facts
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