The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 37
Miracles, Signs and Prophecies 37 have taken place at the hands of the follower of a Prophet, it practically emanates from the Prophet himself. The secret as to how a Prophet's miracle can be shown through another person is that when some- one acts strictly in keeping with the injunctions of his law-bearer, and abstains from everything which he forbids, and faithfully follows the Book that he gives him, he then loses his own identity and becomes the total responsibility of his law-bearer. Thus, if the law- bearer leads unerringly on the straight path-like a skilled physician and brings a holy book which con- tains remedies for the spiritual maladies of his follower, as well as provisions for his intellectual and practical progress, and the follower for his part accepts those teachings wholeheartedly, without even slightly deviating from them in form or content, then whatever signs and miracles result from such perfect submission will only be through the blessing of the law-bearing Prophet. In this way, if an extraordinary phenomenon is manifested through a saint, it will necessary be the miracle of the Prophet whom he follows. [Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyya, Rūņānī Khazā'in, vol. 1, pp. 593-609] I have mentioned time and again that Allah has granted me four kinds of signs, which I have force- fully proclaimed through writings and publications. The first of these is the sign of the knowledge of Ara- bic. This sign was given to me at the time when Muhammad Hussain wrote that I did not know any- thing of Arabic, even though I had never claimed any knowledge of the language. Only those who are con-