Supernatural Phenomenon, A difficult feat, Miracle
– نهج: قَالَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ: لَنَا حَقٌّ فَإِنْ أُعْطِينَاهُ وَ إِلَّا رَكِبْنَا أَعْجَازَ الْإِبِلِ وَ إِنْ طَالَ السُّرَى
(The book) ‘Nahj Al-Balagah’ – He-asws said: ‘There is a right for us-asws. So, if we-asws given it (fine), or else we-asws shall ride a difficult camel, and even if the journey is prolonged’.[1]
وَ إِذَا بَطَلَ اعْتِرَاضُ الزَّنَادِقَةِ فِي ذَلِكَ مَعَ إِعْجَازِ الْقُرْآنِ وَ الْأُعْجُوبَةِ الْبَاهِرَةِ فِيهِ كَانَ مِثْلُ ذَلِكَ ظُهُورَ بُطْلَانِ طُعُونِ الْمُعْتَزِلَةِ فِي الْخَبَرِ الَّذِي رَوَيْنَاهُ لِعَدَمِ اسْتِحَالَةِ مَضْمُونِهِ فِي الْعُقُولِ وَ فِي مَجِيئِهِ مِنْ طَرِيقَيْنِ مُخْتَلِفَيْنِ وَ بِرِوَايَةِ فَرِيقَيْنِ مُتَبَايِنَيْنِ بُرْهَانُ صِحَّتِهِ
And when the objections of the Atheists regarding that are invalidated along with ‘إِعْجَازِ’ the miracles of the Quran and the dazzling wonders in it, the like of that manifests the invalidation of the faults of the Mu’tazilites regarding the news which we are reporting of the impossibility of it being permissible in the intellects, and it’s coming from two different ways and by reports of two sects dissenting the proof its validity.
وَ لَيْسَ فِي إِنْكَارِ مَنْ عَدَلَ عَنِ الْإِنْصَافِ فِي النَّظَرِ مِنَ الْمُعْتَزِلَةِ وَ الْمُجَبِّرَةِ قَدْحٌ فِيمَا ذَكَرْنَاهُ مِنْ وُجُوبِ الْعَمَلِ عَلَيْهِ كَمَا أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ فِي جَحْدِ الْمَلَاحِدَةِ وَ أَصْنَافِ الزَّنَادِقَةِ وَ الْيَهُودِ وَ النَّصَارَى وَ الْمَجُوسِ وَ الصَّابِئِينَ مَا جَاءَ فِي صِحَّتِهِ مِنَ الْأَخْبَارِ بِمُعْجِزَاتِ النَّبِيِّ ص كَانْشِقَاقِ الْقَمَرِ وَ حَنِينِ الْجِذْعِ وَ تَسْبِيحِ الْحَصَى فِي كَفِّهِ وَ شَكْوَى الْبَعِيرِ وَ كَلَامِ الذِّرَاعِ وَ مَجِيءِ الشَّجَرَةِ وَ خُرُوجِ الْمَاءِ مِنْ بَيْنِ أَصَابِعِهِ ع فِي الْمِيضَاةِ وَ إِطْعَامِ الْخَلْقِ الْكَثِيرِ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ الْقَلِيلِ قَدْحٌ فِي صِحَّتِهَا وَ صِدْقِ رُوَاتِهَا وَ ثُبُوتِ الْحُجَّةِ بِهَا
‘And he isn’t in the denial, the one who turns away from the fairness in the consideration than the tyrannous Mu’tazilites; and the Mu’tazilites are defaming regarding what we have mentioned from the obligation of the working upon it, just as he isn’t in the rejection of Atheism and the types of the Atheists, and the Jews, and the Christians, and the Magians, and the Sabeans, of what has come in its validity from the Ahadeeth of ‘بِمُعْجِزَاتِ’ the miracles of the Prophet-as, like splitting the moon, and wailing of the (dried) palm trunk, and glorification of the pebbles in his-as palm, and complaint of the camel, and speech of the forearm (of the grilled sheep), and coming over by the tree, and emergence of the water from between his-as fingers in the watering trough, and feeding the many people from the little food, are valid in their correctness, and true in their reporting, and the argument is proved by these’ (an extract).[2]
[1] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 29, The book of Fitna (Strife) And Ordeals,Ch 15 H 19
[2] بحار الأنوار (ط – بيروت)، ج60، ص: 88, H. 44