Thread by @Jawnmard1

A karama is not a break in the rules of a static cosmic mechanism, but is the manifestation of a free God’s ability to break with His own habits in the world.
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Since a Prophet is divinely secured from sin, he cannot and need not conceal his miracles. This is one sense in which they are distinguished from the miraculous events worked through the saints.
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Prophets, upon them be peace, demonstrate mujiza; saints, upon whom be God’s mercy, demonstrate karama. This is standard in our Sunni doctrine.
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Abu Yazid: ‘a prophet is like ajar of honey, and a mu‘jiza is one drop poured from it; but that drop contains more than every supernatural event given to all the saints combined.’
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— Shaykh Dr. Abdal Hakim Murad (TJ Winter), Commentary on the Eleventh Contentions

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Jaihoon Mujeeb

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