What is the decree about denying miracles (the Ascension (Miraj), the splitting of the moon, water coming between the fingers)?

What is the decree about a person who does not accept or who denies the miracles of the Prophet (pbuh)?

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The Decree about Believing in Miracles:

It is unbelief to deny the miracles that are definite by verses or mutawatir hadiths. However, denying the miracles that are narrated by one person or weak narrations does not make a person an unbeliever.

Scholars divide hadiths into two as mutawatir and ahad.

Mutawatir news (hadith) is the news narrated by a group of people that is impossible to agree on a lie from another group with the same quality and number. This news must be something that the narrators saw; it must not be based on an idea. It must also express knowledge. According to the majority of scholars, the group does not have to consist of a certain number of people; besides, they do not have to be Muslims or just people. There are other weak views explained in detail in the books of usul (methodology) regarding the issue.

Wahid news is the news that does not have the qualities of a mutawatir hadith. There is no difference between news narrated by one person or more people at this point. There is disagreement about its decree. The majority of the Companions, Tabiun and the hadith, fiqh and methodology scholars coming after them state that the news given by one (wahid) person is religious evidence, that it expresses thought and knowledge and hence it is necessary to act based on it. Acting upon khabar wahid is definite based on shari'ah, not mind.

It is fard for every Muslim to believe that Allah sometimes gave His prophets miracles showing that they were loyal to and right in their causes and that they were supported by Allah. There is no prophet that was not granted a miracle by Allah Almighty to approve him. This issue is proved by various verses about the prophets mentioned in the Quran and the miracles granted to them are explained. 

Then belief in the fact of miracle is definite by the Book, Sunnah and consensus of the ummah. Denying miracles that are definite by the Quran like "Isra" and "Splitting of the Moon" related to feelings and phenomena makes a person an unbeliever. There are several verses stating that all prophets were given miracles; the following hadith of the Prophet (pbuh) can also be mentioned regarding the issue:

"Every prophet was given miracles because of which people believed, but what I have been given, is Divine Inspiration which Allah has revealed to me. So, I hope that my followers will outnumber the followers of the other prophets on the Day of Resurrection." (Bukhari, Fadailul-Quran, 1; Muslim, Iman, 239).

The clearest evidence showing that it is logically possible for prophets to show miracles is that Allah Almighty, who creates the miracles, is "the Absolutely Powerful one" that can create anything. For, when the realm of living and non-living beings in the universe, world and sky is viewed carefully and the subtlety, unerring order and strong system in it are studied and contemplated, it is easily understood that it is logically possible for Allah Almighty, who is the creator of all of them, to create something extraordinary called a miracle through His prophets in accordance with His pre-eternal knowledge and universal will in order to confirm them when it is necessary.    

Everybody who believes in Allah, His endless power and majesty believes in miracles without hesitation and that they are logically possible and virtually definite. History of humanity is full of live examples of this fact.

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