Page 179 - The Miracles of Our Prophet (saas)

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Some Qur'anic in ter pret ers, bear ing in mind that the ar ea
is close to the Arabs, pre fer to use "near est." But the word's re -
al mean ing re lates to a ma jor ge o log i cal fact: the world's low est
place is the Dead Sea, which is 399 me ters be low sea lev el The
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most dif fi cult thing about this de feat was, as we said, the loss
of Jerusalem, the sym bol of Christianity lo cat ed near the Dead
Sea. Calculating the Dead Sea's el e va tion is pos si ble on ly with

mod ern meas ur ing de vi ces. Thus, our Prophet (saas) could not
have known this fact. This knowl edge is an oth er proof that the
Qur'an is Allah's word and that He grant ed a great mir a cle to
our Prophet (saas).

Mecca's Conquest

Allah has con firmed His Messenger's vi sion with truth:
"You will en ter the Masjid al-Haram in safe ty, Allah will -
ing, shav ing your heads and cut ting your hair with out any
fear." He knew what you did not know and or dained, in
place of this, an im mi nent vic to ry. (Surat al-Fath: 27)
In Mecca, our Prophet (saas) dreamed that he saw be liev -
ers go ing safe ly in to the Masjid al-Haram and cir cum am bu lat -
ing the Ka'bah. He an nounced this good news to the be liev ers,

for those who had moved from Mecca to Madinah with him
could not, at that time, re turn to Mecca.
As a help and sup port to him, Allah re vealed Surat al-Fath
27, in which He said that the dream was true and that, if He
willed, the be liev ers could en ter Mecca. Indeed, a while lat er
and as it was predicted in the verse, the Muslims en tered the
Masjid al-Haram aft er the Treaty of Hudaibiyah and the sub -

se quent cap ture of Mecca. In this way, Allah dem on -

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