Symposium 31

What is the Difference Between

Miracle and Magic?

Anwar: Salam ‘Alaykom!

Hasan: ‘Alaykom As-Salam Wa Rahmatollah Wa Barakatoh! You had questions.

Anwar: I wanted to know if performing miracles in conflict with the rule of cause and effect.

Hasan: No, and you might ask how a stick can possibly turn into a snake.

Anwar: This and other ones!

Hasan: We should not to mistake absolute absence of cause for absence of material cause. It is against the rule to say that something happened without being based on a certain cause. So, we have to say that there is cause