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The First Addendum

The First Addendum

to The Miracles of Muhammad (UWBP)

[The Nineteenth Word about the Messengership of Muhammad (UWBP) and the Miracle of the Splitting of the Moon have been included here because of their relevance (lit. station – makâm)]

 بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ 

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate

This Word consists of fourteen “Droplets” and is also the Fourteenth Flash.

First Droplet

First Droplet

There are three great and universal things which make known to us our Sustainer. One is the Book of the Universe, a jot of whose testimony we have heard from the thirteen Flashes together with the Thirteenth Lesson of the Arabic Risale-i Nur. [^406] Another is the Seal of the Prophets (Upon whom be blessings and peace), the supreme sign of the book of the universe. And the other is the Qur’an of Mighty Stature. Now, we must become acquainted with the Seal of the Prophets (Upon whom be blessings and peace), who is the second, articulate, proof, and must listen to him.

[^406]: “The Thirteenth Lesson” of the Arabic Risale-i Nur: “Nūr Min Anwār Nujūm al-Qur’ān,” in al-Mathnawī al-‘Arabī al-Nūrī. Taḥqīq: Iḥsān Qāsim al-Ṣāliḥī (Istanbul: Sözler Yayınevi, 1994), 435-82.

Yes, behold the collective personality of this proof! The face of the earth is his mosque, Mecca, his mihrab, and Medina, his pulpit. Our Prophet (Upon whom be blessings and peace), this clear proof, is the leader of all believers, preacher to all mankind, the chief of all the prophets, the lord of all the saints, and the leader of a circle for the remembrance of God comprising the prophets and saints. He is a luminous tree whose living roots are all the prophets, and fresh fruits are all the saints; whose claims all the prophets relying on their miracles and all the saints relying on their wonder-working confirm and corroborate. For he declares and claims: “There is no god but God!” All on left and right, that is, those

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