07-04-2006, 05:44 AM
Bismillah:
"Did your Muhammad raise the dead or cause the blind to see????" this is a very common question asked by Non Muslims to prove that Muhammad was not true Prophet. Some Christians believe that since Jesus peace be upon him raised the dead, cured the blind, healed leprosy, and fed thousands with few loafs of bread, then this makes him <b>the Creator of the Universe</b>. It is important to know that <b>Jesus' miracles were not unique in the Bible.</b> <b> Others too did the same and similar miracles
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Also, it is important to know that <b>no Prophet could perform any type of Miracle without the Permission and Will of Allah Almighty:</b>
"It is not fitting for a man that God should speak to him except by inspiration, or from behind a veil, or by the sending of a <b>messenger to reveal, with God's permission, what God wills</b>: for He is Most High, Most Wise. (Quran, 42:51)"
Anyway, Let us look at the following verses from the Bible that refute the uniqueness of Jesus' Miracles:
<b>Bringing the dead back to life: </b>
"Then he cried out to the LORD , <b>"O LORD my God, have you brought tragedy also upon this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?" </b> Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried to the LORD , "O LORD my God, let this boy's life return to him!" <b>The LORD heard Elijah's cry, and the boy's life returned to him,</b> and he lived. Elijah picked up the child and carried him down from the room into the house. He gave him to his mother and said, "Look, your son is alive!" ( 1 Kings 17:20-23)"
"But the child's mother said, "As surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So he got up and followed her. Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the boy's face, but there was no sound or response. So Gehazi went back to meet Elisha and told him, "The boy has not awakened." When Elisha reached the house,<b> there was the boy lying dead on his couch.</b> He went in, shut the door on the two of them and prayed to the LORD. Then he got on the bed and lay upon the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched himself out upon him, the boy's body grew warm. Elisha turned away and walked back and forth in the room and then got on the bed and stretched out upon him once more. <b>The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes. </b> Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, "Call the Shunammite." And he did. When she came, he said, "Take your son." (2 Kings 4:30-36)"
<b>Jesus' dead body never caused for any dead to come back to life, but Elisha's did:
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"Elisha died and was buried. Now Moabite raiders used to enter the country every spring. Once while some Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders; so they threw the man's body into Elisha's tomb. <b>When the body touched Elisha's bones, the man came to life and stood up on his feet. </b> Hazael king of Aram oppressed Israel throughout the reign of Jehoahaz. (2 Kings 13:20-22)"
<b>Creating life:
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Jesus only restored life, but never actually created one from scratch. Moses, however, did create a live snake from a wooden stick:
"Then the LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?" "A staff," he replied. The LORD said, "Throw it on the ground." Moses threw it on the ground <b>and it became a snake</b>, and he ran from it. Then the LORD said to him, "Reach out your hand and take it by the tail." So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand. ( Exodus 4:2-4)"
<b>Curing the blind:
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"When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early the next morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. "Oh, my lord, what shall we do?" the servant asked. "Don't be afraid," the prophet answered. "Those who are with us are more than those who are with them." And Elisha prayed, "O LORD , open his eyes so he may see." Then the LORD opened the servant's eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. As the enemy came down toward him, <b>Elisha prayed to the LORD , "Strike these people with blindness." So he struck them with blindness, as Elisha had asked.</b> Elisha told them, "This is not the road and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you are looking for." And he led them to Samaria. After they entered the city, <b>Elisha said, "LORD , open the eyes of these men so they can see." Then the LORD opened their eyes and they looked,</b> and there they were, inside Samaria. When the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, "Shall I kill them, my father? Shall I kill them?" "Do not kill them," he answered. "Would you kill men you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them so that they may eat and drink and then go back to their master." So he prepared a great feast for them, and after they had finished eating and drinking, he sent them away, and they returned to their master. So the bands from Aram stopped raiding Israel's territory. Some time later, Ben-Hadad king of Aram mobilized his entire army and marched up and laid siege to Samaria. (2 Kings 6:15-24)"
<b>Healing leprosy:
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"Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, "Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed." But Naaman went away angry and said, "I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy. Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than any of the waters of Israel? Couldn't I wash in them and be cleansed?" So he turned and went off in a rage. Naaman's servants went to him and said, "My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, 'Wash and be cleansed'!" So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, <b>and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy</b>. (2 Kings 5:10-14)"
<b>Feeding hundreds with few loafs of bread:
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"A man came from Baal Shalishah, bringing the man of God <b>twenty loaves of barley bread </b> baked from the first ripe grain, along with some heads of new grain. "Give it to the people to eat," Elisha said. <b> "How can I set this before a hundred men?"</b> his servant asked. But Elisha answered, "Give it to the people to eat. For this is what the LORD says: <b>'They will eat and have some left over.</b>' " Then he set it before them,<b> and they ate and had some left over</b>, according to the word of the LORD. (2 Kings 4:42-44)"
So as you can clearly see from the above verses, <b>Jesus' Miracles were not unique</b>. Therefore<b>, they can never be used to prove that he is the Creator of the Universe.
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Salam
Wael.
