> What is Miracle?

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Miracle literally means, incapacitating, irresistible, invincible, extraordinary event, and an impoverishing job. As a religious terminology it means an extraordinary event which ordinary people are incapable of bringing it about and as a form of challenge what comes out from the prophets as contrary to ordinary and against natural laws. Its main aim is to prove and to attest the prophet's prophesy. For any event to be a miracle must be brought forward in the hands of a prophet who is given the task of prophesy. In fact the miracle is an act of Allah. Therefore the saying of ''Prophet's miracle'' is a metaphoric usage. Therefore the event must be through the prophet, supernatural extraordinary, consistent to the claim, and coming out after a falsification or a disbelieving, and in the kind of incapacitating the human being.

In one hand the miracles bestowed to a prophet are related to prophesy which is from the main principles of the belief, and on the other hand related to the revelation {wahy}. Therefore belief in miracle is necessary: ''And they say: Why are not signs sent down upon him from his Lord?'' Say: ''The signs are from only with Allah, and I am only a plain warner.'' (Ankab?t, 29/50)

Rationally the miracle is not impossible, because the events occurring in the surroundings of human being all the time, the life itself and its aspects are full of miracles. The best examples of this are the creation of the beings and their death when the time comes, and continuity of life. The creator of natural laws which we observe all the time and therefore we think that they are unchangeable is God. God can change these laws through His prophets whenever. This alteration is a miracle. In this case there is no rational obstacle for miracle. On the contrary ration approves the advent of miracle.