tance, that prince was counted worthy of a Borak which, in one portion of the night, carried him to the seventh heaven and back again.

So likewise, if it was given to Jesus to raise the dead and to cleanse the lepers: for our own prophet, even the side of a poisoned kid was endued with life, so that it said to that Excellency, 'Eat not of me, for I am poisoned.' It is related that Maath Ibn Afra had taken a wife who refused to live with him, because she had been told that he had leprosy on his chest, whereupon he laid the case before the Prophet, as a clever physician. The prophet requested him to uncover his chest; and then taking up a club, rubbed with it that part of the chest which was leprous, and the leprosy disappeared instantly. It is also told that once a woman brought a present to his Excellency, begging him to cure the eyes of her girl, who had been blind from her birth. His Excellency turned up her eyes with his blessed hands, and she could see at once.

Some Ulemas affirm that that prince had performed i000 miracles; others 3000. Besides those signs and wonders already mentioned, as connected with his birth, mission, and flight, we have still to record some miracles of that Lord of Lords.

1. His first and greatest miracle is the Koran. For as the miracles of Moses, such as his dividing the sea, turning the water of the Kopts into blood, and his staff into a serpent, corresponded to a prevailing tendency of his age, viz., magic; and as the miracles of Jesus, such as the raising of the dead, the cleansing of lepers, etc., bore on the healing art which was a pre-eminent science of his age; — so in the age of our own prophet, eloquence, poetry, and beautiful composition, were more particularly in vogue, and therefore he brought to the world a word of consummate perspicuity and eloquence, of perfect grandeur of expression and solidity of meaning, and yet free from prolixity and circumlocution, as well as exempt from confusing breviloquence and abridgment, comprising a truthful and just account of former nations and other prophets and apostles, as also of future events; and including marvels of wise sentences and gems of beautiful sayings; having in its order and arrangement not the least

resemblance to other men's words, and being preserved from changes, alterations, and contradictions; and will have to remain in this state till the time of the resurrection.
2. The splitting of the moon into two parts. Ali, the commander of the faithful, affirmed to have heard the account from several persons, that once a number of polytheists came to Mohammed, and said, 'If thou claimest to be a prophet, split the moon which is now in the sky into two parts.' Mohammed asked them, 'If I do so, will you then believe?' and on their answering in the affirmative, he stretched out his hands in prayer, or, according to another account, he made a sign to the moon with his fore-finger, when instantly the moon became divided in two, one part remaining where it was and the other descending behind the mountain and disappearing; or, according to another account, one half was seen over one mountain and the other half over another mountain; or, according to still another account, the moon was divided in such a manner that the mount Hira could be seen between the two halves. But the Koreish said, 'Mohammed has used magic before us.'
3. On the Farewell-pilgrimage they brought an infant to the Prophet of God which was only born that very day, and when his Excellency asked, 'Who am I?' the infant answered, 'Thou art the Apostle of God.' After this the infant did not speak again till the time had arrived when it could naturally do so.
4. Om Salma and others narrated: 'Once the Prophet was walking in the field, when he suddenly heard a person's voice saying, "O Apostle of God!" When his Excellency first looked round he saw nothing; but on looking carefully, he observed a hind tied in a tent which said in a clear voice, "O thou Apostle of God, come to me;" and when his Excellency went and asked, "What dost thou want?" the hind replied, "I have two kids on this mountain: loose me that I may go and suckle them, after which I will return to thee." His Excellency said, "Wilt thou come back again?" The hind replied, "God shall punish me, if I do not return." Upon this his Excellency let it go; and when it had suckled its young, it returned; but Mohammed requested its owner to let it go.'