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72 COMMUNICATION AND ARGUMENT IN THE QUR’AN

whoever He wills and guides to Himself all who turn to
Him.” (Surat ar-Ra‘d: 27)

Unbelievers want to see miracles. In order to believe,
they absolutely want to see such miracles. However, for
those who can use their intelligence miracles abound
everywhere.
For example, if someone says that “there is a stone sus-
pended in the air,” that would be a great miracle. But what
they fail to realize is that the billions of tons that make up
our planet have been hanging in the vacuum of space ever
since it was created. However, it was not simply left there
to hang without purpose; it revolves in a perfect orbit
around the Sun.
The wondrous power of attraction among atoms is also
a miracle, as is the fact that the far-distant Sun can warm
Earth and be a means of life for all creatures. The fact that
there is a reason for these things does not diminish their
miraculous character, because that reason is also a mira-
cle. But such things do not affect those who fail to see the
proofs of Allah’s power.
In the Qur’an, Allah tells us how the unbelievers look for
miracles:
They say: “We will not believe you until you make a
spring gush out from the ground for us; or have a gar-
den of dates and grapes through which you make riv-
ers come pouring; or make the sky, as you claim, fall
down on us in lumps; or bring Allah and the angels
here as a guarantee; or possess a house built out of
gleaming gold; or ascend up into heaven – and even