The categories of supernatural events: First, a prophetic miracle and a miracle granted to a righteous person; second, a trial for the person involved, and the difference between them.
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The Shaykh : Before I move on from mentioning some of what concerns the Dajjal and his descriptions to the Dabbah, I want to seize this opportunity to remind many people today who believe in supernatural events of another type and consider them to be miracles (karamat) of the awliya (close friends of Allah) for no reason other than the fact that they are supernatural events. We must also know this legal reality: supernatural events are divided into two categories. The first category is miracles (mu'jizat) for the prophets or miracles (karamat) for the awliya. The other category is supernatural events that are a trial from Allah (Mighty and Majestic) for their owners; they are not a miracle or a karamah for their people, but rather a fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), as you have seen regarding the greater Dajjal.
These two categories are a matter agreed upon by the scholars of the Muslims. The supernatural event is sometimes a miracle or a karamah, which is of course a beautiful thing, and sometimes it is a fitnah for the person from whom it issues or through whom it occurs. Distinguishing this type from that type, or this category from that category, is done by looking at the source of either type. If its source is a believing man, a prophet or a righteous person, then it is a miracle or a karamah. But if its source is a person you see who does not pray, does not fast, and from whom you may even hear words of kufr (disbelief) that some people interpret by calling them "exclamations of ecstasy," then this is not a karamah, because the one from whom this alleged karamah issued cannot be described as righteous, let alone as a prophet.
Once we know this, what we hear from many people—that so-and-so used to walk naked in the streets and yet supernatural events issued from him, so they are karamat for him—this is not permissible to attribute to Islam in any way. Rather, these are either tricks, absurdities, and deception by some of these people, or they are a trial from Allah (Mighty and Majestic), as we mentioned.
This is mentioned in the Noble Qur'an: The trial by the supernatural is sometimes good and sometimes a fitnah.
And such "karamat," which are more deserving of being called humiliations, have filled the pages of many books concerning the biographies of men who claim affiliation with the Sufiyyah (the Sufis) and with ...
These two categories are a matter agreed upon by the scholars of the Muslims. The supernatural event is sometimes a miracle or a karamah, which is of course a beautiful thing, and sometimes it is a fitnah for the person from whom it issues or through whom it occurs. Distinguishing this type from that type, or this category from that category, is done by looking at the source of either type. If its source is a believing man, a prophet or a righteous person, then it is a miracle or a karamah. But if its source is a person you see who does not pray, does not fast, and from whom you may even hear words of kufr (disbelief) that some people interpret by calling them "exclamations of ecstasy," then this is not a karamah, because the one from whom this alleged karamah issued cannot be described as righteous, let alone as a prophet.
Once we know this, what we hear from many people—that so-and-so used to walk naked in the streets and yet supernatural events issued from him, so they are karamat for him—this is not permissible to attribute to Islam in any way. Rather, these are either tricks, absurdities, and deception by some of these people, or they are a trial from Allah (Mighty and Majestic), as we mentioned.
This is mentioned in the Noble Qur'an:
And We test you with good and with evil as a trial
ونبلوكم بالخير والشر فتنةAnd such "karamat," which are more deserving of being called humiliations, have filled the pages of many books concerning the biographies of men who claim affiliation with the Sufiyyah (the Sufis) and with ...