Search:
Main /

Book of Healing - Healing Through Knowledge - Examples of Qur'anic Marvels and Wonders Part One

Examples of Qur'anic Marvels and Wonders Part One

Tags: Colour of God

  1. Sibghatu'llah (Colour of God, 2:138): Without any doubt these marvels and wonders are among the observations of certainty of vision (`aynu'l-yaqin), as to how God, the Lord of honour, colours the souls of mu'mins and each and everything of the personal world in different lights, such as green, yellow, red and the white colour which is called the light of lights (nuru'l-anwar). These colourful lights are revealed from the Throne. (Az-Zinah, II, 153). Thus God says: "Colour of God, and who is better than God at colouring? We are His worshippers." (2:138).
  2. Light of Faith: God, the Supreme Creator, through His perfect power has made the light of faith extremely perfect, dear and beautiful. The delightful manifestations of the ma`rifat of its beauty constantly appear in front of the eye of the heart in the above-mentioned colours, as God says: "God has endeared the faith to you and has beautified it (with lights) in your heart." (49:7).
  3. Act of `Izra'il: In verse (32:11) Hazrat `Izra'il, may peace be on him, is mentioned as follows: "Say: The angel of death who is given charge of you (wukkila bi-kum i.e. he is made guardian of you all the time) shall cause you to die." In this act of Hazrat `Izra'il are included all kinds of death. Among these deaths, the sufic death is worth mentioning, in which many great miracles of spirituality and ma`rifat appear together. At that time the manifestation of the angel of death takes place in the form of a Supreme Name, which is one of the Beautiful Names of God (al-asma'u'l- husna). This Supreme Name remains in the head and continues to repeat itself, and his army of spiritual particles permeates the cells of the entire body and starts to bring the soul out.
  4. Four Birds of Khalil (Ibrahim, 2:260): In the four birds of Hazrat Ibrahim, may peace be upon him, there are the examples of the power of Jibra'il, the power of Mika'il, the power of Israfil and the power of `Izra'il of the personal world. Thus, when by the help of God, the Holy, four birds of the carnal soul are slaughtered these four powers are awakened and come alive.
  5. Ma`rifat (Recognition) of Prophets and Awliya': Man `arafa nafsahu faqad `arafa rabbahu (He who recognises his soul recognises his Lord) (Ahadith-i Mathnawi, p. 167). But the question is: which soul or essence? It is the Perfect Soul and the Single Soul (31:28) without which creation (khalq) and Resurrection (ba`th) cannot be recognised. It is implied in verse (7:11) regarding the recognition of Hazrat Adam: "And We created you ( physically), then We completed your (spiritual) form, then We told the angels: Prostrate yourselves to Adam! And they prostrated themselves except Iblis. (And all this happened before your inner eye)." Thus, the recognition of the Prophets and awliya' becomes complete through the demonstration of the Single Soul.
  6. Sarabil (Shirts, 16:81): Why should the great bounties of God not be gratefully and repeatedly mentioned in that He, the Omnipotent, has created two kinds of living shirts, namely, subtle bodies, for the people of faith. One is for Paradise and the other in order to spread Islam in this world. In the living or subtle shirt which is for Paradise, the higher "I" (ana-i `ulwi) or the higher end of the mu'min lives even now in Paradise, about which it is said in a Prophetic Hadith: "The soul of the mu'min is a bird which is attached to the tree of Paradise." (al-Mu`jam, VI, 433; Ibn Majah, II, 1428) If the bird of soul is attached to the tree of Paradise, then it should be remembered that the tree is not without soul and intellect. That is, the tree is a Perfect Man as well as a Supreme Angel.
  7. Kayfa madda'z-zill (How he has extended the shade? 25:45): The collective soul of human beings which is spread in the entire world is the shadow of the Perfect Man and the Complete Person, which appears due to the rising of the sun of the true light. Thus, this shadow by the command of God, spreads farther and farther and also becomes centred. This means that, not only can every man be away from the Single Soul, but also become close and attached to it. In this connection read verses (25:45-46) carefully.
  8. `Ifritun mina'l jinn (An `Ifrit from among the jinn, 27:39): Question: Was the `Ifrit from among the jinns a Muslim, who on the command of Hazrat Sulayman, had offered his services to bring the throne of the Queen of Sheba? Answer: Yes, he was a Muslim. He was among the chiefs (27:38) and his leadership was due to his religion and faith, otherwise how can a non-Muslim or a person who is weak in faith, be a chief in the army or the court of a Prophet? In fact, he and the one who had the knowledge of the Book (27:40), were both the miraculous shirts mentioned in verse (16:81), to which attention is drawn here.
  9. The Word of Command and the Mountain of Intellect (16:81): "And God has made for you of what He has created shadows, and He has made for you places of shelter in the mountains" (16:81). That is, God, the Knowing, the Seeing, has made the luminous shadow of every great creature in your personal world. First of all He has made the shadow of the Word of Command and that of the Mountain of Intellect in the personal world, due to which all spatial and temporal problems come to an end and only the realities of azal and abad come in front and the miracle of the tajaddud-i amthal continues to work.
  10. Nun wa'l-Qalam (68:1): God says: "Nun. By the pen and what they write" (68:1). Hazrat Imam Ja`far al-sadiq was asked about this verse. He said: Nun is a river in Paradise which is whiter than snow and sweeter than honey. God said to it: Freeze! It froze. Then He said to the Pen: Write! It wrote what has to happen till the Day of Resurrection. Then He told it: Be Silent! It became silent (Az-Zinah, II, 144). Whatever the Pen had written, there were the secrets of Divine knowledge in it.
  11. Kutubun Qayyimah (98:3): "Fiha kutubun qayyimah (Therein are correct books)" (98:3). This means that the holy Qur'an contains the meanings of all the earlier heavenly books, for it is the fruit and quintessence of all of them (Mufradat p. 629). Thus for a fortunate person to be attached to the glorious Qur'an with zeal and to love it, means to love all heavenly books. Love of the Qur'an has remained in the heart and soul as a delightful and pleasant pain from the very beginning. By God! let it remain there, for many other diseases cannot attack in its presence.
  12. Sha`a'iru'llah (Signs of God, 22:32): "That (shall be so); and whoever respects the Signs of God, this surely is of the piety of hearts". Thus the lasting wealth which one attains by reciting and listening to knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an and acting accordingly apart, just to respect it on the level of belief is also an easy piety of the heart. Although on the other hand, the piety of the heart is very difficult. Thus God will protect the mu'min from many evils and diseases if he accepts the wise Qur'an as the speech of God and the greatest miracle of the holy Prophet and respects it with heart and soul. In the mention of the "piety of hearts" it is alluded to this. In spiritual medicine, the piety of heart is the most important thing. If God, the Mighty, wills.

N. N. Hunzai,
Friday 7 Dhu'l-hijjah 1408
22 July, 1988.

Chapter IndexPrevious ChapterNext Chapter