shafique wrote:Berrin, I do believe in miracles - absolutely.
However, I don't believe God would break His own laws of nature to perform them
Well that’s exactly why I said that miracles are not meant to break natural laws and that they only happen because God wills them so..At the end of the day he is Al-Muqtadir and Al-Qawiyy..for anything and everthing for any moment to happen.
I think He would have planned to be able to show miracles without having to stop the earth rotating for a day like eh believes.
Eh is prepared to believe in anything as long as he can wrestle with the God of islam.
Miracles are only miracles when humans can experience/witness them live(when they have no control over the outcome), otherwise they are subject to proof/performance via natural laws.
having “the power” to stop rotating the earth for a day is one thing, having “the will” to show his servants that he can stop the earth to rotate for a day is another thing. In this case it cannot be a miracle for humans since it couldn’t have been witnessed through bare human eyes and senses, otherwise to claim it to happen or happened is subject to natural laws for evidence.. This is why I think it cannot be a miracle.. even today if God willed to stop rotating the earth for a day, we couldn’t have possibly felt it unless we were reported it, as being extraordinary through the visual and scientific evidences provided by the astronomers..
Allah also says the Quran contains metaphorical verses. Tafsir's and respected scholars have written about what a 'bird' means in terms of metaphor when applied to descriptions of men. In fact it is a common use even to this day.
Yes I agree that there are words which have both metaphorical and ambiguous meanings,as explained here..
http://muslim-canada.org/quran_interpretation.htmlI accept that as a proof of God, quran has dynamic verses to be interpreted by new generations to come, so what we understood as metaphoric word in the past, can be as clear as its literal meaning today… as in this example…
http://miraclesofthequran.net/scientific_30.htmlIn centuries to come, there will be many new discoveries both social/scientific to help us understand why certain things described using certain patterns of worlds and styles. But when our understanding is limited and without evidential proof, then I much rather stick to the mainstream authorised translation of the quran. Otherwise I feel that people just cease to care about it, as there would be utter confusion, not knowing which one to believe.