The Seventh Flash

[This is about the seven sorts of predictions about the Unseen at the end of Sura al-Fath.]

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

Truly did God fulfil the vision for His Messenger: You shall enter the Sacred Mosque,  if God wills, with minds secure, heads shaved, hair cut short, and without fear. For He knew what you knew not, and He granted besides this, a victory soon to come. * It is He who sent His Messenger with guidance and the Religion of Truth, to proclaim it over all religion, and enough is God for a Witness. * Muhammad is the Messenger of God; and those who are with him are strong against unbelievers, [but] compassionate among each other. You will see them bow and prostrate themselves [in prayer], seeking grace from God and [His] good pleasure. On their faces are their marks, [being] the traces of their prostration. This is their similitude in the Torah; and their similitude in the Gospel is: like a seed which sends forth its  blade, then makes it strong; it then becomes thick, and it stands on its own stem, [filling] the sowers with wonder and delight. As a result, it fills the unbelievers with rage at them. God has promised  those among  them who believe and  do righteous deeds forgiveness, and a great reward.(48:27-9)

These three verses from Sura al-Fath contain many aspects of miraculousness. The Qur’an of Miraculous Exposition’s miraculousness has ten universal aspects; the aspect related to its giving news of the Unseen may be seen in seven or eight ways in these three verses.

THE FIRST

“Truly did God fulfil the vision for His Messenger” to the end of the verse, gave certain news of the conquest of Mecca before it happened. It occurred two years later just as predicted.1

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1   Ibn Hisham, Sirat al-Nabawiyya, v, 69; Ibn Sa‘d, al-Tabaqat al-Kubra, ii, 139, 146.