This relates to the Qur’an’s miraculous prediction, as well as its freshness and ability to address all levels of understanding regardless of time and place. This ray consists of three radiances.

Third ray

This relates to the Qur’an’s miraculous prediction, as well as its freshness and ability to address all levels of understanding regardless of time and place. This ray consists of three radiances.

First radiance:

This relates to the Qur’an’s predictions and has three light‑giving aspects.

First aspect:·The Qur’an gives news of the past. Although communicated by an unlettered one, the wise Qur’an mentions in a solemn and powerful manner the important experiences of all Prophets from the time of Adam to the Time of Happiness as well as the main aspects of their mission. The information it provides usually coincides with the commonly agreed descriptions of the previous Scriptures. It also corrects the points on which their corrupted forms disagree. Thus the Qur’an has an all‑seeing vision that knows the past better than the previous Scriptures.

Its account of the past is not something rational, but it may be traditional. Tradition is usually particular to lettered persons, whereas Prophet Muhammad was completely unlettered.[1] While the stories of previous Prophets are mentioned mainly in Makkan suras, no one in Makka knew about them. Furthermore, traditions are based partly on hearsay and usually are mixtures of truth and untruth. But the Qur’an speaks of past events as if seeing them. It extracts the kernel of a long series of events and presents its argument through that kernel. The extracts, summaries, and indications found therein therefore demonstrate that the One Who presents them sees all dimensions of the past. Just as a substantial summary, a fine extract, or a telling example shows a specialist’s skill or expert knowledge, the Qur’an’s chief points and main themes, chosen from certain events, show that the One Who chooses them has an all‑encompassing knowledge of the whole and is describing them with an extraordinary skill.

Second aspect: This relates to the Qur’an’s many categories of predictions. One category is particular to saints and spiritual unveiling. For instance, Muhiy al‑Din ibn al‑‘Arabi found many predictions in Surat al‑Rum. Imam Rabbani discovered signs of many future events in the muqatta‘at (the individual, disjunct letters at the beginning of certain suras). For scholars of the Qur’an’s inner aspects and esoteric meanings and of creation, the Qur’an is full of predictions. I will concentrate on only one and be content with mentioning some examples, without going into detail.

The Qur’an says to the Messenger:

So be patient: Surely God’s promise is true. (30:60)

You shall enter the Holy Mosque, if God wills, in security, your heads shaved, your hair cut short, not fearing. (48:27)

It is He who has sent His Messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth, that He may uplift it above every religion. (48: 28)

The Romans have been vanquished in the nearer part of the land; and, after their vanquishing, they shall be the victors in a few years. To God belongs the Command. (30:3‑4)

You shall see, and they will see, which of you is demented. (68: 5‑6)

Or do they say: “He is a poet for whom we await what fate will bring.” Say: “Wait. I shall be waiting with you.” (52:30‑31)

God will protect you from people. (5:67)

If you are in doubt concerning what We have sent down on Our servant, bring a sura like it and call your witnesses, helpers, apart from God, if you are truthful. If you do not—and you will never do it—then fear the fire... (2:23‑24)

Say: “If the Last Abode with God is yours exclusively, and not for other people, then long for death—if you speak truly.” But they will never long for it. (2:95)

We shall show them Our signs in the outer world and in themselves till it is clear to them that it is the truth. (41:53)

Say: “If humanity and jinn banded together to produce the like of this Qur’an, they would never produce its like, even though they backed one another.” (17:88)

God will bring a people He loves and who love Him, humble toward believers, mighty and dignified against unbelievers, (people) who struggle in the way of God, not fearing the reproach of any reproacher. (5:54)

Say: “All praise be to God. He shall show you His signs and you will recognize them.” (27:93)

Say: “He is the All‑Merciful. We believe in Him and in Him we put all our trust. Assuredly, you will soon know who is in manifest error.” (67:29)

God has promised those of you who believe and do righteous deeds that He will make you successors in the land, even as He made those who were before them successors, and that He will establish their religion for them, that He has approved for them, and will bring them into security after their fear. (24:55)

All of the predictions made in these verses came true. So if a person who was subject to the severest criticisms and objections, in whom even one fault was certain to lead to his cause’s failure, makes predictions so unhesitatingly and confidently, and in such a serious manner, it shows without doubt that he speaks not of himself but of what he receives from his Eternal Teacher.

Third aspect: This relates to what the Qur’an says about the Unseen, Divine truths and the Hereafter’s realities. Certain truths of creation also may be considered in this category.

The Qur’an’s explanations in these areas are among the most important pieces of information about the Unseen. Humanity cannot advance in a straight direction amid paths of misguidance and reach the Unseen’s truths or realities. The deep, endless disagreements between schools of philosophy and scientists show that even their greatest geniuses cannot discover even the least of these truths by unaided reasoning. With purified souls, refined hearts, evolved spirits, and intellects perfected by the Qur’an, humanity could perceive and accept those truths and realities, and then could say only: “May God bless the Qur’an.”

No one can discover and perceive the Hereafter’s events, states, conditions, and stages, including the life of the grave, by himself or herself. However, one can penetrate and comprehend them via the Qur’an’s light, as if seeing and observing them clearly. You may refer to The Tenth Word, which discusses how right and true are the Qur’an’s explanations of that Unseen world of the Hereafter.

[1] 1In addition, no local people could tell him about the past.