The Perception of Miracles in the Modern Era

Abstract

One of the important top headings of the science of kalam within the traditions of Islamic thought is the issue of prophecy. Under the title of prophethood, some presumptions are required as evidence of the prophethood of a person who is a prophet. The miracle is the most important of these in the context of the God-human relationship. Because the miracle is a phenomenon that goes beyond the prophet himself. It differs from a liar's claim to be a prophet in that it shows that the miracle it shows with the threat it contains cannot be done with the help and grace of anyone other than Allah. Simply being a good or ideal person may be one of the conditions for the validity of the prophecy. However, it cannot be the only condition. From this point of view, mutakallims discussed the conditions of prophethood and evaluated what criteria the prophet's miracles should have. Our study evaluated Ferid Vecdi and Muhammad Hussein-Mustafa Sabri’s discussions, which allowed tracing the miracles discussions in detail, especially under the title of prophethood. Elmalılı's criticisms against Avicenna, who defended the inseparability of the moon's natural structure of the miracle of splitting the moon in two, in which the miracle presents an even more special structure, and in his commentary in the context of the first verse of the Surah Al-Qamar, in which he defended the physical possibility of the miracle, the possibility, and justifications of the miracle in terms of modern scholars and modern science. It is based on the issue of what a Muslim's attitude will be toward them.