Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
[ The miracle is in two folds ]
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The miracle is of two kinds: one kind is to bring about something that is not within the power of humans and that only God can do, and that is Mighty. I mean attaining knowledge of it, like reviving the dead, which only God can do. But reaching it through the path of knowledge that He is alive in itself is Mighty, for we have seen the staff of Moses. Peace be upon him, a snake, and the magicians’ sticks were snakes, and the common people did not differentiate between the two lives. That is why we said that reaching the knowledge of that is dear, and the other type, which is the one that could be closer, is the exchange. In that, he claims that the one who is normally destined for you, if I come, will turn to him for the truth of my claim, for the one who sent me will turn you away from him. You will not be able to oppose him, for everyone who has the ability to do so will find in himself incapacity at that time, and will not be able to accomplish what he was able to do before this