Re: Miracles

Qur’aanic Verse 26:158:

26:158
Transliteration:

158. Faakhathahumu alAAathabu inna fee thalika laayatan wama kana
aktharuhum mu/mineena
Translation:
158. And then the punishment befell them. There is indeed in this a
sign, and most of them believed not.6
Study Note:

6. The ancient tribe of Samood was given the sign of the she-camel.
And yet most of the tribe did not believe. Other pre-historic tribes
too were given such signs, and most of them, likewise, believed not.
They were deficient in knowledge as compared to the peoples of this
historic age. Allah Almighty had therefore given signs to His
Messengers sent to those peoples so that they could thereby recognize
the Messengers as authentically from Allah. But no such extraordinary
or miraculous sign was given to Muhammad (peace on him), His Messenger
sent for this historic age, claims to the contrary prevalent among
some misguided sections of Muslims notwithstanding. Nothing in the
Qur’aan supports such claims. The Qur’aan, on the contrary, urges the
believers to look around them and to ponder over the innumerable
natural phenomena contrived specifically for sustenance of human and
other lives on this planet. The provision of absolutely essential
things like free air and almost-free water, the occurrence of day and
night continually succeeding each other, the deliberate tilt of
earth’s axis at a particular angle to cause seasonal changes, the mind-
boggling orbital movements of trillions and trillions of the heavenly
bodies in a perfect mathematically correct balance of centripetal and
centrifugal forces without bumping into one another, and innumerable
such phenomena in nature provide signs galore, for those who reflect,
of a super-intellectual Being in perfect control. The miraculous signs
of old are now redundant and superfluous.

 The above is an extract from Qur’aanic Studies Manzil V, which will
soon, inshaAllah, be published on Amazon Kindle. Manzil I,  Mabzil
II,  Manzil III and Manzil IV of the series are already published.