Islam Rediscovered
17. Prophetic Vision
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opportunities, and turn every disadvantage to
advantage.
The well known German psychologist Alfred Adler
in his book,
The Individual Psychology
has written
that, after studying human beings all his life, the
greatest potential he found in them was “their
power to turn a minus into a plus.”
Throughout human history, the greatest example of
this human potential coupled with vision is to be
found in the Prophet Muhammad. This unique
quality in him has been acknowledged by historians
in diverse ways. For instance, British writer, Mr.
E.E. Kellet writes: “Muhammad faced adversity
with the determination to wring success out of
failure.”
The Prophet’s vision was on a totally different plane
from that possessed by the common man. It would
be true to say that such extraordinary vision has
never been found in a person who is not a Prophet.
The extraordinary nature of this vision is a proof in
itself that it was not a human quality in the simple
sense, but that he had received it, in a special sense,
