300 MIRACLES OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD ﷺ Number 257.

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300 MIRACLES OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD ﷺ

Number 257. 

Every miracle of the previous Messengers is due to the light of the final Messenger of Allah.

• Imam al-Qastalani quotes Ibn Marzuq regarding Imam Busayri‟s Qasida Burda: 

“…Every miracle that every Messenger has brought, surely was only because it was an 

extension to each one of them of the light of Muhammad, may Allah bless him and give 

him peace. How beautiful is his saying "surely was theirs only in connection to his light" 

for it suggests that his light, may Allah bless him and give him peace, always remained 

unchanged in him, and nothing of it was decreased. Had he said, "Surely it was part of his light", then it could have been imagined that he distributed it to them, and that perhaps nothing of it remained for him. All the signs given to each one of them was only theirs 

through his light, may Allah bless him and give him peace, because he is a sun of excellence, and they are the planets of that sun which convey its lights to humankind in the darkness. The planets are not shining by themselves, but they receive light from the sun, so that when the sun is absent they show the light of the sun. Similarly, the Prophets before his existence used to show his excellence, so that whatever lights appeared at the hands of the Messengers other than him, it was only from his outpouring light and vast extension (madad), without decreasing anything of it.” [al-Mawahib al-Laduniyya]