The miracles of the saints

 

The miracles of the saints

 

The people who deny miracles ad wonders are entangled in dogma and don’t use their intelligence….they are like the insect which has spent its entire life on a wooden branch.  If someone describes to that insect the conditions of the earth and the heavens, except denial what else can that insect do?

 

It is the way of the ignorant folk that when they hear something which they don’t understand, they immediately deny it totally.  Instead of accepting and acknowledging it, if they at least leave room for its possibility (being possible but not necessarily probable), most of the quarrels will be done away with.

 

In fact, they even start denying the possibility of it happening.  Obviously, when one side is bent on proving its actual performance and the other side is bent on negating even the possibility of this, then one can understand the kind of arguments that start and the time that is wasted in them.

 

If this was the case with only the ignorant folk, it would’ve been a consolation.  In our times, many intellectuals have also taken recourse to this approach.  It is on this basis that they end up denying miracles of the Prophets and the saints, the jinns, angels, etc.  Although they might have said that they don’t have that much knowledge to judge….however, it is easier for them to completely deny it.

 

But the outcome of this approach is not good.  If a Muslim says, he/she will end up going out of the fold of Islam.  Just see!  How emphatically genies were denied and booklets were composed for this purpose.  However, new research has disabused this notion….  Similarly, mesmerism has discredited those who considered human beings to be nothing more than animals.

 

Thus, if you hear that a saint, a Gnostic (A’arif) prayed in a drought and it rained or desired healing for some diseased person and that person was cured or cursed a nation and they were buried in the earth or destroyed by an earthquake or some such thing, or an epidemic was thwarted by their prayers or that tigers, etc. obeyed or that birds didn’t fly away at their approach then exercise restraint and don’t be hasty in denying them.

 

[Excerpted from Maqasid Ul Islam, Vol. 7]