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(10) Tenth basic Principle. It is that God sent Muhammed as the last Prophet and as an abrogator of all previous laws of the Jews, Christians and the Sabians and God helped him with opem miracles and wonderful signs, such as splitting up the moon into two parts, the praise of the pebbles causing the mute animals to speak, water flowing from his fingers etc. The open miracle with which he guided the Arabs is the Quran, as the beauty of the language throughout the Quran is unparalleled and the Arabs could not surpass it inspite of their eloquence and rhetoric. Though the Prophet was illeterate and did not learn how to read and write, yet God informed him in the Quran about the histories of the previous nations. The informations which he gave about the previous nations in the Quran being an illiterate person, the prophecies he made about the future events and the clue he gave to the unknown things are his miracles. For instance God says : You will enter the sacred mosque if God wills having your heads shaved and your hair short — 48:27. The verse : The Romans have been vanguished in a land nearby but after their defeat they will defeat them in a few years — 30:1. The object of these verses is to prove the truth of the messenger of God by miracles.

FOURTH PILLARS OF FAITH

To believe the Hadis of the Prophet involving

ten basic Principles

(1) First basic Principle. It is to believe in the Resurrection of the dead and the Day of judgment as in the traditions. It is a settled fact like the beginning of our creation. God said : People say : Who shall give life to bones when they are rotten? Say, He shall give life to them who gave them life at first — 36:78. The beginning of creation is the proof of its resurrection. God said :
Your creation and your resurrection are like a single soul — 31:27.

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Resurrection is the second stage of men and is possible like the first stage of creation.

(2) Second basic Principle. It is the question of Munkar and Nakir which has been mentioned in traditions and therefore to believe it is compulsory. The second life will be in such a place where he willbe questiond. This is possible naturally, as the stillness of the dead man's corpse nor its failure to hear the questions put to it will refute it, bcause a sleeping man is openly still and dead-like but his soul feels pain and and pleasure at that time in dream. Its effect can beseen when he wakes up from sleep.
The Prophet used to hear the words of Gebriel and see him but the men surrounding him did not hear his words or see him. As Cod did not give them such power of sight and hearing, they did not see and hear.