16) A Short List of Miracles

Here are a few of the miracles of the last Prophet sent to mankind, Prophet Muhammad (alayhi as-salat was-salam). This is a short list and does not cover the many miracles that have been reported and it does not cover the constant miracle that is present with us all.

Some of the Final Prophet's miracles
1) Split the moon in two, then brought it back together. This was a historic event reported by people in surrounding countries at the time.
2) Traveling from Mecca to Jerusalem then past the 7 heavens within one night.
3) Water pouring from his fingers such that he quenched the thirst of over 1,500 thirsty men in the dessert
4) Knowing the future.
5) Knowing what people think.
6) Can see from behind him just as well as in front
7) Healed the sick
8) Being invisible
9) Animals would talk and complain to him of their owners
10) A tree walking towards the Prophet, talks to him, and returns back to it's place.
11) Hearing the stones praise God
12) The Prophet talking to a mountain and the mountain talking back
13) A group of birds complained to the Prophet over their eggs having gone missing
14) Healing a child who could not speak by having the child's mother give him water the Prophet prayed upon.
15) Healing the blind
16) Defeating an incoming army by picking up a handful of sand and throwing it in their direction.
17) A poisoned piece of food warned the Prophet that it is poisoned
18) Turning water into milk and butter
19) Turning salt water into fresh water
20) Raising the dead
21) Making it rain

There are much too many miracles to type out, I may come back and add more with more detail at a later time.

15) Objective Knowledge

I'll get back to the post on Miracles soon.  Before I do so I wanted to first give the reader a quick understanding about Knowledge.

Knowledge is of two types:
a- Objective
b- Subjective

Objective knowledge is knowledge that applies to each and every individual. Everyone can reach the same conclusions through objective knowledge and any ruling that applies to one individual applies to all.

Subjective knowledge is knowledge that may or may not apply to everyone. It may apply to some or many but not all. 

Proper judgement and balance comes through objective knowledge, not through subjective knowledge. We study objective knowledge in order to understand the universe around us and it's laws.

There are three types of objective knowledge
1- Five Senses () الحواس الخمس)
2- Intellect (العقل)
3- True Revelation or "True news" (خبر صادق)

We can all agree upon what we experience using the five senses (as long as we all have five senses functioning properly). For instance, if a red car passes in front of 100 people, they would all know that they saw a red car. No one would think they saw a blue car.
If someone holds ice that person will feel coolness of ice, no one would feel ice and think it's warm. Through the five senses we can all come to agree on certain truths.
The five senses are the lowest type of objective knowledge.

Intellect is a higher form of objective knowledge.
We can all agree on certain understandings through the intellect, such as 1 + 1 =

2. No one would object to such a fact. The intellect reasons that it is impossible for two different objects to occupy the exact same

space at the exact same time. No one with sound intellect would object to that either. Through the intellect we can all come to agree

to certain truths. If it happens that there is a difference between the five senses and the intellect, the intellect is superior.

The third and highest form on objective knowledge is True revelation.
True revelation is divided into two categories
a- Divine revelation. God is Truth, therefore God does not lie, therefore whatever God says is True.
b- Successive narration. What this means is that something has been conveyed by numerous narrators that it is impossible for them to have agreed upon an untruth. Therefore it is unquestionable in its veracity.  For instance, we all know that New Zealand exists even though many of us have never been there. Yet we've heard about it from so many different sources that it is impossible for it to be a lie.

Since true revelation is the highest form of ojbective knowledge, we would follow revelation if the intellect contradicts it.

However, one should note that there are no contradictions between each type of objective knowledge.

Through the intellect a person could reach proper understanding of what is True Revelation from what is false revelation.

[I'll come back and add more to this post soon as I'm posting it incomplete, God willing. ]