Title: Miracles of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) Question: There are many who teach that Prophet Muhammad performed many miracles. One that comes to mind is water flowing from his fingers. I've been taught that the only miracle is the Qur'an, is this true? Please expound. Ronnie Answer: It is true that the Qur'an has mentioned itself as miraculous. Besides this fact the Qur'an neither refutes that any other miracle may be shown through the Prophet (pbuh) nor proclaims that any other miracle was shown through the Prophet (pbuh). Nevertheless, one thing, which is quite clear from the Qur'an is that it has declared that no miracle shall be shown through the Prophet (pbuh) to convince the rejecters about his prophethood ( Al-An`aam 6: 35). However, miracles may be shown through the Prophet (pbuh) to those, who had already accepted faith on the call of the Prophet (pbuh), specifically for the purpose of giving more strength to their faith. Keeping the foregoing clarification in perspective, other miracles may have been shown through the Prophet (pbuh), even though the Qur'an has not referred to any of them. Some such miracles have been reported in narratives describing those incidents. If these narratives are considered reliable and the incident reported in these narratives are considered accurate, then one may hold the miracles reported in them to be true. It is quite difficult to give the exact number of such 'miracles' reported in the narratives included in books of Hadith , yet the referred incident of water flowing from the Prophet's fingers is, indeed, one such incident, which has been reported. I hope this helps. Regards, Moiz Amjad March 16, 2002