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What the Prophet (saas) Said of the Future





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                               In the Qur'an, Allah states that He has brought about many mira-
                         cles by means of the prophets. When the Prophet Musa (as) threw down
                         his staff, for instance, it turned into a serpent, and when he smote the sea
                         with that staff it divided into two, leaving a dry path down the middle.
                         The Prophet 'Isa (as) came into the world without a father, and spoke
                         while he was still in the cradle. Another miracle is the way he was able to
                         heal the sick… All these miracles were support and help given to them, in
                         the sight of Allah, to allow them to convince the people and lead them to
                         believe in them.

                               Allah supported the Prophet Muhammad (saas) by means of both
                         the miracles in the Qur'an and with information given him regarding the
                         unknown. The Prophet (saas) supplied details about events that would

                         happen in the near and distant future. Seeing these actually come to be is
                         both a means of increasing the excitement of believers and of warming
                         the hearts of unbelievers towards Islam.

                               Events that would have seemed impossible to happen in his own
                         time, and that no one could even have imagined, which are now occur-
                         ring one after the other, are clear evidence of the fact that the Prophet
                         (saas) was relating special knowledge.

                               We must make it clear that those who refuse to be guided to the
                         true path will nevertheless still refuse to believe, despite the clear evi-
                         dence and miracles of the Prophet (saas) and the Qur'an. Allah reveals

                         that fact in the Qur'an:

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