What Is the Significance of Prophet Muhammad’s Miracle of Splitting the Moon into Two?

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

[Shri Anil Antony asked: As proof of existence of Allah, Prophet Muhammad did a miracle of splitting of moon into two. The statement of Quran regarding this is given below: Chapter 54, 1-8 verses.

The Hour has come near, and the moon has split [in two] - And if they see a sign [i.e., miracle], they turn away and say, "continued magic."- And they denied and followed their inclinations. But for every matter is a [time of] settlement- And there has already come to them of information that in which there is deterrence – Extensive wisdom – but warning does not avail [them]- So leave them, [O Muhammad]. The Day the Caller calls to something forbidding - Their eyes humbled, they will emerge from the graves as if they were locusts spreading - Racing ahead toward the Caller. The disbelievers will say "This is a difficult Day."

What is the essence of splitting of moon?]

Swami replied:- Here, Moon represents the mind and splitting of moon means splitting of mind in two halves resulting in the state of doubt due to two equally strong concepts. Miracle is done by both God and Satan. We can’t decide God through a miracle. When the miracle is supported by the excellent spiritual knowledge, then only, God can be decided. The atheist sees the miracle as magic. Miracle is common to both God and Satan and the miraculous power of Satan is from God only. The miracle of Satan is called ‘black magic’ in order to distinguish Satan from God. God created Satan because the villain is also needed in the divine drama. The atheist neither believes in God nor believes in Satan. Even the theist will not say that the miraculous power of Satan is magic. The ignorant theist believes the magic also as miracle. The ignorant atheist believes the miracle of both God and Satan as magic. Both these ignorant souls are extreme. The middle golden path is the theist recognizing the unimaginable miracle of both God and Satan on one side and recognizing the magic performed by a magician on the other side. Miracle is genuine and unimaginable power of God. Magic is fraud created by the intelligence of human being, which appears as miracle through the power of illusion. The genuine human incarnation does miracle and belongs to the side of God, not to the side of Satan and also not to the side of a magician.

The fraud human incarnation may belong to the side of Satan or to the side of a magician. The miracle is actually done by the unimaginable God, who is invisible, but, can become visible through a genuine human incarnation. Even the genuine miracle performed by a climax devotee of God stands on the side of God only. Even in the case of Satan and his followers, the miracles are done by the unimaginable God only, who is the sole support of the divine drama. Jesus is the genuine human incarnation of God, but, was misunderstood by the priests and majority of public following the priests as the fraud human incarnation doing miracles with the help of Satan. The atheists, as usual, misunderstood Jesus as a clever human being performing magic. Jesus was crucified by priests and their followers, who believed the concept of miracle, but, assigned Jesus as the follower of Satan doing black magic and this is a very serious concept that led to killing Jesus. Black magic is genuine miracle, but, wrong. The magic performed by a clever human being is not that much serious as black magic and can be punished, but, not killed. If a clever fellow does magic and cheats the public, he can be punished, but, not killed. Mohammad knew very well that Jesus is true incarnation doing genuine miracles, which are neither certainly black magic nor certainly pure magic. He wanted that a human incarnation be better misunderstood as a human being doing magic instead of misunderstanding Him as doing black magic so that at the maximum, He will be punished and not killed. Hence, Mohammad called Jesus as a clever person doing magic so that killing of human incarnation is avoided in future also. This is the essence of this paragraph representing concept in a very condensed way.

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