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Record of Incidents
Before the Birth
of Sayyidina wa Maulana
Muhamamd 
from Rauza tus-Safa
revised by El-Sheikh Syed Mubarik Ali Shah Jilani al-Hashimi
In fine,
the chief of created beings, the mediator of existing creatures, and bestwoer
of the essence of individuality, Muhammad (saws) the chosen was born of
Aminah, the Daughter of A'bd Munaf Zohri, during the year of the elephant,
at the end of the eighty-second of the Alexandrian era, and manifested
his word-adorning countenance to the denizens of the earth.
The following are some of
the miraculous events of that night, which became to everybody as plain
as daylight: The dissappearance of the water from the lake Sadah;
the overflowing of the river Samavah, which is one of the watercourses
of Syria, and had been dry during one thousand years. But possibly
when the water of the lake Sadah was absorbed by the earth, it bubbled
forth again in the Wadi Samavah, as Shekh Kamal-ud-din, that model of piety-may
his secret be sanctified- has said:
Distich: The Greek dug a mine in the country
of Beran, And again came out in the country of Khojand.
During that night also the palace
of Naushirvan so trembled that fourteen of its pinnacles fell to the ground.
This event filled the mind of Kesra with terror and apprehension, which,
however, he did not communicate to anyone, until at last he one day convoked
his intimate friends and courtiers, and wished to do so, when all of a
sudden news arrived from Estakhar that the fire of the chief temple of
Persia, which had been burning for a thousand years, had become extinguished.
Having searched their historical books for the meaning of this sign, they
found that it protended 'decline of power.' At this information the
smoke of amazement ascended into the receptacle of the brains of Naushirvan,
and his dismay was much augumented.
Another event of the night
the Prophet's (Sall Allahu alaihi wa Aalihi wa Sallim) nativity was that it took place
when the Qoraish were holding a festival in honour of one of their idols,
in whose temple they had at that time assembled, adn were engaged in eating
and drinking. They found, however, that their god had fallen to the
groungd, and set him up again; but as he was, a short time afterwards,
again found prostrate on his face, the idolaters were much dismayed, and
erected him again. When they had done so the third time, a voice
was heard from the cavity of that idol saying:
Verses: All the regions of the earth,
in the east and west, Respond to the nativity, whom its light strikes;
Idolatry decreases, and the hearts of all the kings of the earth trimble
for fear.
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