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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Hidden Truth about Karbala Chapter 26: Miracles Before we discus Imam Husayn’s miracles, it is necessary to understand the meaning, connotation, and genesis of miracles.

Simply defined, a miracle is an act of a Divinely appointed Prophet, Apostle, or Saint which is contrary to the ordinary nature of things, incapable of being explained or duplicated by human beings, performed not by any practiced skill but as a Grace endowed by God, rendering the beholders spellbound and submissive to a Superior and Omnipotent Power.

The Arabic word ‘Mu’jizah’ simply means that which makes man acknowledge his helplessness, incapacity and inferiority before a Supreme Omnipotent.[^1] Miracle is the proof of Prophethood; vicegerncy of the Supreme, Almighty Lord, the Creator.

Non-believers turned away from the miracles, declaring them to be ‘magic’.[^2] They accused the Prophets as liars and sorcerers and the Scriptures as nothing but empty words to veer them away from their ancestral deities.[^3] A third category of people took a converse sense and started worshiping Prophets, Rabbis, and monks as gods besides Allah.[^4] One of man’s inborn qualities is the tendency to gloat over his achievements.

When men perform great deeds or achieve great objects, they fall into two categories; firstly, those who acknowledge and prostrate before that Supreme Power that enables men to reach the pinnacle of success, and secondly, those who in their conceit deny a Supreme Power while giving credit to themselves for their success. In the later case, the heady wine of conceit confers a sense of invincibility on the vainglorious. This assumed sense of invincibility breeds arrogance.

Tyranny is nothing but an aggravated form of arrogance on a larger scale. The basis of tyranny is a false sense of freedom from accountability to one’s actions. Unrepentant tyrants consider that there is none who would be able to subjugate them to render account.