ভূমিকা

Let Us Know the Quran Better - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief Let Us Know the Quran Better 2022-11-02 475 Views The Holy Quran , Everlasting Miracle , familiarity with Qur'an The conditions and clear signs which must exist in every bearer of a heavenly message must be shown to exist also in the Prophet of Islam.

Prophethood and Messengerhood are closely and inseparably linked to the miracle that proves the relationship of the claimant to prophethood with the supra-natural realm; the miracle is the clearest and most objective evidence that disarms those who would illogically deny prophethood, for it demonstrates that the claim of the Prophet is founded on reality.

All the Prophets had but a single aim in fulfilling their Divine missions; their teachings are all of a similar type, notwithstanding the peculiarities of the mission of each, and the truths they expounded concerning the supra-natural realm differ only with respect to the degree of detail.

It is true that there are differences with regard to acts of worship and social dealings; a common principle is implemented in differing ways that take into consideration the specific characteristics of each age and represent an evolutionary process. It appears that one of the reasons for the variation in miracles is that in the times of earlier Prophets, people were inclined to believe only on the basis of material observations of visible objects that lacked any spiritual content.

The fetters imposed on human thought by the seers and sages of those times caused people’s attention to be limited to a particular realm, which, in turn, was the most significant factor in separating them from God and causing their minds to stagnate. The destruction of such a limited mode of thought was therefore of necessity a principal aim of the Prophets.

The Prophets were entrusted by God with the duty of attacking this source of error by confronting the seers and soothsayers with deeds of a type similar to that which they performed but enjoying a special advantage that placed them beyond the reach of all competition.

By the power of the miracle, they negated and destroyed that particular cause of the human beings’ separation from God-the concentration of their attention on the dazzling acts performed by the soothsayers of the age which enslaved their spirits.