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sion. I will tell you what you eat and what you store up in your homes.
There is a Sign for you in that if you are believers. (Surah Al 'Imran, 49)
….They said, 'How can a baby in the cradle speak?' He ('Isa) said, 'I
am the servant of Allah, He has given me the Book and made me a
Prophet.(Surah Maryam, 29-30)

THE MAN WHOM ALLAH CAUSED TO DIE FOR A
HUNDRED YEARS AND THEN BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE
Or the one who passed by a town which had fallen into ruin? He
asked, 'How can Allah restore this to life when it has died?' Allah
caused him to die a hundred years then brought him back to life. Then
He asked, 'How long have you been here?' He replied, 'I have been
here a day or part of a day.' He said, 'Not so! You have been here a hun-
dred years. Look at your food and drink – it has not gone bad – and
look at your donkey so We can make you a Sign for all mankind. Look
at the bones – how We raise them up and clothe them in flesh.' When it
had become clear to him, he said, 'Now I know that Allah has power
over all things.' (Surat al-Baqara, 259)

THE COMPANIONS OF THE CAVE STAYED IN THEIR
CAVE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS AND THEN WOKE UP

They stayed in their Cave for three hundred years and added nine.
Say: 'Allah knows best how long they stayed. The Unseen of the heav-
ens and the earth belongs to Him. How perfectly He sees, how well He
hears! They have no protector apart from Him. Nor does He share His
rule with anyone.' (Surat al-Kahf, 25-26)

THE WIND MADE SUBSERVIENT TO
THE PROPHET SULAYMAN (AS)
And We gave Sulayman power over the wind – a month's journey in
the morning and a month in the evening. And We made a fount of
molten copper flow out for him. And some of the jinn worked in front
of him by his Lord's permission. And if a single one of them deviates at
all from Our command, We let him taste the punishment of the Searing
Blaze. (Surah Saba, 12)