| Miracles - visible sign of
prophethood. When a person makes a claim, it is his duty
to give a satisfactory proof in support of his claim. For example, when the ambassador,
who is the nation’s highest-ranking diplomat in the country, arrives to take
charge of his office, he first delivers authentic papers certifying his position.
The government of that country will never entertain any person in that capacity
unless he shows valid credentials as an evidence of his candidacy for that position.
The same rule applies for prophethood. Thus, if a person
claims that he is the Prophet of God, it is his religious duty to show satisfactory
evidence in support of his statement. In Islamic terminology, such an evidence
is known as miracle or Ayat, meaning sign of prophethood. Quran confirms that,
every Prophet sent by Allah Taala was endowed with some kind of supernatural power
by means of which he was able to demonstrate one or more miracles to prove his
prophethood. What is the difference between Prophet
and a scientist There is a sharp difference between a
scientist and the Prophet. In fact, there is no comparison. However, for the sake
of understanding the unparalleled position of the Prophet, few basic differences
are being mentioned here. A Prophet demonstrates
miracles to prove his prophethood. A miracle is a certain act which can puzzle
the people and that act can not be done by anyone else.A scientist can also demonstrate
something which can puzzle the people, but that act can be performed by many other
scientists of his caliber. No scientist has ever shown anything which was impossible
by other scientist to perform. The Prophet
tells about the future or about the unseen which has never been proved wrong.
Scientists also tell many things about future on the basis of certain knowledge
and experiments, but many of their reports have been proved wrong by other scientists.
Scientists have extraordinary talent, sharp memory, and incredible thinking faculties.
They have designed Electron microscope of tremendous magnifying power to see an
object as small as 1/ 250,000,000 inch. They have also designed high power telescope
to see extremely distant objects.Scientists can see with these powerful tools
of penetrating eyes, inside the invisible atom and the outermost galaxy. But despite
these powerful instruments at their disposal, they can not see what happens inside
the grave, and what will happen after the death. Whereas, the Prophets have a
quite different power - that is of receiving the absolutely accurate news from
a totally invisible world — a world which will always remain outside the
range of highly sophisticated telescope or microscope.
All
great prophets were given some kind of miracle to establish their authority over
the people of their nation. These miracle were in accordance with the specialization
of their time. For example, Hazrat Musa was given the miracle of serpent to beat
the magician who were specialist in camouflaging the ropes as snakes. Hazrat Isa
was bestowed with a miracle of giving life to the dead people, and curing the
born blinds. In his time, the Greek medicine was at its peak. The
miracle of the Holy Prophet (sws) - The Quran - is a miracle for all nations that
will emerge from time to time until the Doomsday. Thus, Quran will remain a challenge
in every field of study and every sphere of specialization. Thus,
the scientists can do a lot of useful work if they wholeheartedly recognize the
Prophets as their teachers.
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