Today : 28 - Jamaziy'al Akhir - 1433 / 19 May 2012

What Kind of Miracles Did Our Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) Perform?

Could you give an example for each miracle Our Prophet performed?

Answer:

Here are just two examples for our Beloved Prophet Muhammad’s miracles:

Quran Miracle

Each prophet performed miracles on the most popular and most common issues of their eras.
For example, at the era of Prophet Jesus, medical science was in demand. That’s why; Prophet Jesus’ greatest miracle was bringing the dead back to life as well as healing the blind and the leper.
In the era of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) four things were in demand in the Arabian Peninsula:
1. Eloquence (balaghat) and fluency (fasahat): art of fluent, forcible, elegant and persuasive speaking in an appropriate way to the addressee.
2. Poetry and elocution
3. Soothsaying and informing of the unseen
4. Acquainting of the past and the universal events.
The Holy Quran that is the greatest miracle of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) challenged the poems, elocutionists and soothsayers by giving information about the past and future events and anything related to the universe with Its unique and inimitable eloquence and elocution. None of them could compete with even just one surah of the Quran and none could imitate even just one sentence. So they had to submit to and approve Quran’s superiority with great respect and admiration.

The Ascension (Miraj) Miracle

As the greatest miracle of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) that He performed for the dwellers of the earth is His splitting the moon into two, His greatest miracle performed for the dwellers of the heaven is “Ascension”.
According to the common points of the narrations reported in Bukhari and Muslim, the Ascension miracle occurred in this way:
One night, while Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was in Hijr (Hatim), the name of an area just next to Kaaba, in some narrations while he was sleeping and in some others while he was in a situation between sleeping and being awake, Gabriel (as) came, split his chest and after washing it with zam-zam water He filled it with faith and wisdom and closed back. He helped Prophet Muhammad mount on the ride called Buraq that could cover an incredibly vast distance with one leap. They travelled over than 1200km in less no time and reached the Bait-ul Maqdis(Masjid al-Aqsa in Jerusalem) where Prophet Muhammad performed two rakahs salah leading the previous prophets. Then, Gabriel brought two cups; milk in one and wine in the other. Upon Prophet’s choosing the milk cup, Gabriel said: “You chose the fitrah (creation)”.
After that, our blessed Prophet (pbuh) commenced the next stage of his miraculous Night Journey with the accompany of Gabriel (as). Gabriel took Him from Bait-ul Maqdis and ascended to the heaven.
In each heaven they ascended, Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) met the prophets in order of Adam (as), Jesus (as), Joseph (as), Idris (as), Harun (Aeron) (as) and Moses (as). Finally He met Prophet Abraham in the seventh heaven where the bait-ul Mamur is located in. When they reached Sidrat-ul Muntaha (lote-tree of the utmost boundary) where no human has ever been before, He heard the creaks of the writer angels’ pens. Then Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) left Gabriel and passed beyond the Sidrat-ul Muntaha alone, as the first and only creature stepping into that mysterious realm. There He (pbuh) stood in the presence of Allah the Almighty and talked to Him (Subhanahu ve Teala). Human words are not enough to describe the wonder of that realm and the human intellect isn’t capable enough to comprehend how it happened. There, Allah (swt) bestowed 50 prayers a day upon Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and His Ummah. As He was descending after this incomparable Holy Meeting, He met Prophet Moses and told him about the prayers. Moses (ra) said that it would be very hard for Prophet Muhammad’s ummah and advised him to ask Allah to ease it. So, our blessed Prophet applied to the presence of Almighty Allah (swt) until He (swt) increased the prayers to 5 times a day. (Bukhari: Salah,1; Tawhid 37; Anbiya 5; Bad’ul-halk 7; Manakib 24/ Muslim: Iman 259,262-263; Fadaail 164)
According to a narration Allah (swt) also revealed the last verses of Surat-ul Baqara in the Ascend (Miraj) and gave the glad tidings of the ones’ who don’t associate partners with Allah (swt) being forgiven. (Musnad 1, 422; Muslim: Iman, 279) Kaynak: http://askaquestionto.us - What Kind of Miracles Did Our Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) Perform?