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greatest greetings and peace this is Dr
Lawrence Brown once again with this
episode last time we were discussing the
character of Muhammad sallallah alai
wasam and we concluded that we would
follow with this episode which is
dedicating to discussing the evidences
for Muhammad s. wasam having been the
true Prophet that he claimed to be now
when we are talking about the
Miracles that surround a prophet
Miracles be divided into two types those
Miracles that occur around the prophet
peace be upon him as evidence of his
prophethood and those Miracles which are
channeled through his person in other
words Miracles performed by the will of
Allah through that person and these are
the first two evidences of the
prophethood of Muhammad peace be upon
him other evidences include his
character his persistence and
steadfastness the lack of
disqualifiers and the prophet's
maintenance of the message and we will
address all of these in this episode and
the episode to follow so to begin with
we are going to start by discussing the
first category of Miracles those
Miracles which surround a person as
evidence of their prophethood as
evidence of divine favor upon them
what are some examples of such kind of
Miracles well Allah saving Daniel from
the Lions saving Jonah from the whale
Abraham from the fire Moses from Pharaoh
certainly the Virgin birth of Jesus
Christ now many westerners many who are
not familiar with the Islamic religion
should be reminded that at the birth of
Muhammad sallallah alai wasam there was
a miracle of a star as well according to
Hassan iban thit the legendary Muslim
poet he was in Medina over 200 miles
away from Mecca when Muhammad peace be
upon him was born no way at that time
for the message to have been transmitted
from Mecca to Medina at that time and
yet on the day that Muhammad sallallah
alai wasam was born he heard
a Jew screaming at the top of his voice
quote Oh my Jewish
Community tonight the star of Ahmed
meaning the foretold Prophet Muhammad in
which he was a born upon has arisen when
you look at the later life of Muhammad
sallallah alai wasam we find Miracles
such as the fact that there were
multiple attemps attempts upon his life
now you have to forgive me for skipping
a lot this subject has books written
upon it and it cannot be covered in one
discussion so I am jumping from his
birth to his
adulthood when Muhammad s. wasam was
bearing the message of
Revelation there were those who hated
him and wished death upon him in one
case an unbeliever accosted him with the
sword of the Prophet which he had
snatched while the prophet sallallah
alai wasam was sleeping and when he
threatened him with the sword and said
who will save you now the prophet
sallallah alai wasallam replied Allah at
that moment the disbelievers hand became
paralyzed and he could not hold the
sword and he dropped it in another
relation Abu jahal declared his
intention to crush Muhammad's head while
he was praying in prostration he picked
up a boulder and advanced towards him
while he was praying intending to crush
his head he was repelled by the vision
of a vicious camel which nobody else
could see and retreated declaring the
vision of this vicious camel that to
everybody else's eyes was not there
similarly Abu lab's wife once went with
a handful of stones to Stone the prophet
and she found his companion Abu Bakr
sitting and she asked him about the
whereabouts of Muhammad sallallah alai
wasam intending to go and stone him well
in fact Muhammad sallallah alai wasam
was sitting immediately beside Abu Bakr
they were sitting next to one another
but whereas she could see Abu Bakr Allah
blinded her eyes to muhamad mad Sall Al
wasam intending to go and stone him she
could not see him she could not find him
in other Traditions Muhammad sallallah
alaihi wasallam was informed either by
Miracle or by the angel of Revelation
Gabriel of plots to kill him by Poison
by pushing him off a mountain side and
by crushing him with a boulder dropped
from a height in all cases
the plots were true Muhammad sallallah
alai wasam was able to avoid them
and by so doing remain
alive what is interesting about these
stories is two things one is there was
never a false alarm in a time when
Muhammad sallallah alai wasam had every
reason to believe that everybody was out
to kill him for in fact many were he did
not declare any false plots upon his
life the only times that he identified a
plot against his life was when there
actually was one the other thing that is
interesting about this scenario is that
despite all of these attempts upon his
life when a true Prophet or anybody in
public position whose life is threatened
has every reason to begin to get a
little bit paranoid Muhammad sallai
wasam he released his
bodyguards now why would anybody do
something like this something we would
conceive to be almost crazy people are
trying to kill you they've made multiple
multiple attempts and you release your
bodyguards who in their right mind would
do this if not a prophet for he received
Revelation stating quote Allah will
defend you from Men Who mean
Mischief so he understood this as a
promise from Allah to protect him and
released his bodyguards upon the
strength of this promise when Muhammad
sallallah alai wasam planned the
immigration from Mecca to Medina a crowd
a mob of Assassins surrounded his home
the intention was that they would kill
him together on mass so that no one
person would be blamed with the murder
but the blame would be distributed among
all of the tribes what did he do he
supplicated to Allah he recited Quran he
walked out of his house and he walked
through their midst and not a single
person saw
him in this way because Allah had
confused the assassins and blinded their
eyes to his presence he was able to walk
out of his house and out of Mecca and
begin the immigration to Medina and on
route to
Medina they were chased by all of Kesh
who had been offered a reward for their
return Sur IB Malik one of the famed
Warriors hungry for this reward Came
Upon them with his horse and charged at
them but as he approached the horse
stumbled and fell and threw him he cast
lots or cast arrows as was the habit of
the Pagan Arabs of that time and he
found the signs were not positive but he
was still so hungry for the reward he
got back on his horse tried to charge
again the horse tripped again and threw
him he was a renowned horsemen for him
to have been thrown by the horse was
something very very unusual but it
happened not only only twice he did it
again and he was thrown a third time and
it was so impressive upon him that he
stopped within shouting distance of
Muhammad sallallah alai
wasam and Muhammad Sall Al wasam
promised them promised sakb Malik that
if he would turn back from his Pursuit
one day he would wear the crown and the
bracelets of the emperor of
Persia and on that note we will take a
quick break stay with
us welcome back this is Dr Lawrence
Brown continuing this episode where we
are discussing the signs suggestive of
the Prophet hood of Muhammad sallallah
alai wasam I left off discussing how uh
Muhammad
Sall was accosted byb Malik on his
immigration from Mecca to Medina
they were chased by all of Kes who had
been offered a reward for their return
Sur Malik one of the famed
Warriors hungry for this reward Came
Upon them with his horse and charged at
them but as he approached the horse
stumbled and fell and threw
him he cast lots or cast arrows as was
the habit of the Pagan arrows of that
time and he found the signs were not
positive but he was still so hungry for
the reward he got back on his horse
tried to charge again the horse tripped
again and threw him he was a renowned
Horseman for him to have been thrown by
the horse was something very very
unusual but it happened not only twice
he did it again and he was thrown a
third time and it was so impressive upon
him that he he stopped within shouting
distance of Muhammad sallallah alai
wasam and Muhammad
sallallahu promised them promised SB
Malik that if he would turn back from
his Pursuit one day he would wear the
crown and the bracelets of the emperor
of Persia now we have to remember for
anybody but a Prophet this would have
been a wild prophecy a wild forell
ing Persia was one of the great world
powers of the
time Persia was on the brink of being
the major power of the time throughout
the world and Muhammad Sall wasam and
his small band of followers are
immigrating escaping persecution from
The KES running to Medina for
a place where they could live as a small
band to promise that somehow in the
future Saka IB Malik would be able to
wear the crown and the bracelet of the
emperor of Persia was not just a bold
promise for anybody but a prophet it
would have been considered
insane and yet this is exactly how it
happened sakb Malik although a
disbeliever like the other enemies of
Muhammad sallallah alai wasam knew him
for his exemplary
character they could not deny his
character although they did deny the
Revelation and even the enemies of
Muhammad s Al wasam knew him as
a the truthful the trustworthy and So
based upon these words from Muhammad
sallallah alai wasam as crazy they might
have sounded coming from anybody else
Sur IB Malik turned around and went
away returned to Mecca and sure enough
many years later after Muhammad
sallallah alai wasam had passed from his
worldly existence the Muslims did defeat
the major world power of Persia and Saka
IB Malik did wear the crown and the
bracelets of the chros the Emperor of
Persia
and so this most unlikely prophecy came
true another powerful evidence for the
prophethood of Muhammed peace be upon
him at the Battle of
bad the Muslims were outnumbered 4 to1
the kresh had a Cavalry the Muslims did
not the kresh had maale and armor
basically to protect their bodies the
Muslims did not The KES not only
outnumbered them but had strength in
weapons and strength in their own
protection in the form of this male all
the
same Muhammad sallallah alai wasam when
he saw their army at a distance he took
a handful of Earth and threw it at them
saying confusion sees their
faces immediately a storm a Desert Storm
stirred up causing confusion in the
ranks of the enemy the battle ensued the
Muslims were victorious remember the
enemy outnumbered the Muslims 4
to1 at the conclusion of the battle the
dead of the enemy outnumbered the
Muslims 5 to one exactly the opposite
from what you would expect if the
enemies outnumbered the Muslims you
would expect more dead among the Muslims
than among the superior force it was
exactly opposite the Muslims were
victorious the vast Army of the quresh
was put into Retreat and Allah revealed
quote when you threw meaning this
handful of dust that the prophet
sallallah alai wasam threw when you
threw it was not your act but
Allah's
Meara Muhammad's Caravan companion
related that while they were on Caravan
he noted that Muhammad sallallah alaihi
wasallam
was shaded by clouds which followed
him bahira a nestorian monk is recorded
to have identified Muhammad sallallah
alai wasam as the final foretold Prophet
by a birth mark on his back which he
identified as the Seal of prophethood
and he made this identification when
Muhammad Sall alai wasam was a child
traveling with the
Caravan perhaps perhaps the greatest
Miracle or I should say one of the
greatest because there were so many that
occurred during the life of Muhammad
sallallah alai wasam to identify him as
a prophet was
alra the journey and the Ascension the
story of Muhammad Sall Al wasam having
been mystically
transported from Mecca to Jerusalem by a
horse a flying horse through the air
ascending through the heavens descending
again and traveling back to Mecca all in
one
night quite obviously when he told of
this journey people were speculative
they had understandable
consternation however when they asked
him since he had allegedly traveled to
Jerusalem to describe Jerusalem for
their benefit even though he had never
been there he described it to all who
had been there and they identified that
in fact he could only be giving a
description as one who had seen it with
their own eyes in addition in
transit on the trip back at night he had
traveled in the sky and so he had passed
a caravan 2 days distant from Mecca 2
days distant from from Mecca no way by
any other means to know of this Caravan
at that place in time he described the
Caravan to the Kesh he described the
people he described the animals he
described the
events so all of these are miraculous
events occurring around the prophet
sallallah alai wasallam as indications
of his prophethood now let's move on to
Miracles that were performed by the
prophet sallallah alai wasam by the will
of
Allah this is a long list again books
have been written about this subject
alone I will only encapsula the issues
Muhammad s wasam through invoking the
blessings of Allah was known to have
brought milk to the utters of dry sheep
he was known to have energized camels
that were too weary to walk and they
would become the fastest among them he
was known to have fed and watered the
masses with minuscule
quantities he was known to have done
other Miracles such as healing such as
transforming a stick of wood into a
sword for a soldier who needed one Etc
scores of hungry poor were fed from a
bowl of milk judged sufficient for one
when they looked at the bowl it looked
like it was enough only for one person
and yet when he invoked blessings over
it everybody drank from it scores of
people drank from it and it was not
depleted an army numbering over a
thousand was fed from a measure of flour
and a little pot of meat so small that
it was thought sufficient for only 10
people this was at the Battle of the
trench in another case Muhammad Sall
Alam gathered the mixed food stuffs of
an army of 1400 it came to a few
handfuls of mixed food stuffs he invoked
Allah's blessings over it
1,400 people ate from it filled their
stomachs and there was so much left over
that they filled their saddle bags as
well from a few handfuls of food stuff
1,400 were fed and filled their saddle
bags on another occasion an army of 1400
men ran out of water they only had a
very small quantity of water a few
handfuls again he invoked blessings over
it and it became enough water to water
them it became enough water for everyone
to perform
Abol in the same way Muhammad sallallah
alai wasam exercised Spirits healed the
broken leg of Abdullah
IB he healed the war wounded leg of
Salama he healed healed the inflamed eye
of Ali the bleeding wound of another man
the poisonous sting to Abu bakr's foot
and restored the vision to a blind
man when the people were suffering from
drought he prayed for rain and it rained
when the rain continued too long they
asked him he prayed for the rain to be
around us but not upon us whereupon the
rain
divided and instead of being upon them
surrounded them for their comfort and to
prevent the damage from the downpour
many times he received
Revelation that proved
prophetic and we will continue this
discussion when we return next time this
is Dr Lawrence Brown bidding you peace