This is understood though experience.

This is understood though experience. By way of example, experience shows us that whenever combustion occurs, there must be a cause anterior to it, such as a spark or friction, resulting in a flame.

Through careful deliberation of the meaning of ‘cause’ it is clearly understood that two irrefutable qualities of ‘causality’ are ‘generality’ and ‘inviolability’.[^4] In all the cases where the Qur’an speaks of life, death, livelihood, and generally, all events, both heavenly and mundane, it is totally clear that the Qur’an endorses this law. It should not be forgotten, however, that the Qur’an ultimately attributes all causes to God since they all eventually must end in a single central cause.

In short, the Qur’an asserts that the law of causality is authentic. This means that whenever a cause exists with the characteristics necessary for creating an effect, if there are no obstacles the effect will surely occur—by God’s leave of course. On the other side of the coin, whenever an effect is found, perforce the existence of a cause is recognized.

Part two: the Qur’an verifies miracles The Qur’an informs of some events that are contradictory to the normal course of the natural world, which is based upon the system of causality. These events are the signs and miracles that the Qur’an ascribes to some great prophets, such as the miracles of Noah, Hūd, Sālih, Abraham, Lot, David, Solomon, Moses, Jesus (‘a), and Muhammad (S). These miracles are things that go against the prevailing routine of the natural world.

However, it must be noted and carefully considered that even though these phenomena seem unfamiliar and highly unlikely[^5] in relation to the normal way of the world, they are not essentially impossible and in no way warrant that two antitheses may co-occur or that one is not half of two.

These are things that the intellect deems as impossible and if a miracle were like this, no mind could accept it whereas we see that the minds of the people of many nations and religions have accepted these miracles without protest. In addition, if one contemplates the matter, the essence of miracles is not completely unknown in the natural order of things.

Every moment, the corporeal system of the world takes the life of the living and gives life to the dead; it changes one event into another and that into yet another; it alters one form into a different one and again into another; it transforms frailty into resilience and so on.