WITNESSING of SIGNS/MIRACLES
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Peace all,
The recent conjecturing about the nature of the miraculous in the Quran led me to meditate on the issue and I want to present what I believe people here ought to consider. I want to use 2844(-46) as the basis.
I witness an alarming degree of 'neo-mutazilite' thinking amongst the members of the forum. While this is undoubtedly needed when it comes to interpreting such verses as 1137, 4810 which mention God's eye and hand it is a different matter altogether to build metaphors on events that are recounted as historical in the Quran.
The peril of such thinking is as follows. The people who rejected the physical miracles of earlier times are destined for great punishment. The modern equivalents not only deny the miracle as having happenned, they deny God's account of it in the Quran without having any proof that it did not happen in the way God says it does. They are doubly worse in their rejection!
Now I want to come to 2844
2844 You were not present on the slope of the western mount, when we issued the command to Moses; you were not a witness.
All the people conjecturing on these miraculous events were NOT WITNESSES to the events that God recounts and yet seem like they are expert at interpreting them. They see them in their (free)mind's eye.
Peace.