MIRACLES OR SIGNS OF GOD — Phenomena In Nature

MIRACLES OR SIGNS OF GOD Phenomena in Nature T HE signs that the prophets of God demonstrated to their people are commonly known as miracles. But this is not a true Islamic understanding. The Quran and Hadith refer to these prophetic examples not as miracles, but as signs. Calling such instances as miracles presents them as prophetic phenomena, whereas referring to them as signs shows them to be natural phenomenon. Moses was a prophet of God. He was born in ancient Egypt in the 16th century B.C. The Egyptian ruler of the times, Pharaoh II, challenged him in a contest where, on the demand of the ruler, the Prophet Moses demonstrated a sign. When he threw his wooden staff to the ground, it instantly became a moving serpent. This event was witnessed by many people, some of whom were so affected by this event that they immediately accepted the divine message of Prophet Moses. This incident was not just a lesson for the contemporaries of the Prophet Moses. In reality, it was an eye-opening sign for the whole of mankind. There is a great lesson in it for people of all times. In fact, Prophet Moses had demonstrated to people a universal and common law of God. This is the law of conversion. With the help of God, Prophet Moses had shown that a piece of wood could be changed into the shape of a serpent in the same way that everything in nature is being converted from one form into another. The event that Prophet Moses demonstrated to the people was in reality this law of conversion — the act of changing something from one form to another. In the order of nature this act of conversion is universal and all pervading. It is a proof of the existence of God and of His power. There are several references to this natural law of conversion in the Quran. The Quran says that in this world nothing is being converted into something (THE QURAN 52: 35). In the same way, it is mentioned that a non-existence is converted into an existence (THE QURAN 76: 1). Prophet Moses was born in the 16th century B.C. and died in the 15th century B.C. This was the pre-scientific era, when such signs