A Comparison between Miracles and Causality in the Light of Muslim and Western Intellectuals

In what follows, the authors have dealt with the relation between miracles and the law of causality. Having adopted a philosophical-theological method and in the framework of unknown causes and dominated or supernatural causes, they closely examine theories such as the incompatibility of miracles and causality or the denial of either of the two. Dealing first with the semantics of miracles, they sum up the issues of miracles and then propose issues about causality and the consequences of its denial. Having explained the two phenomena, they compare the relation between them. There are seven viewpoints studied in three phases: “the compatibility of miracles with causality”, “the incompatibility of miracles with causality” and the denial of any relation between miracles and causality”. By those seven theories, one may claim that all theories therein have been proposed for study. The room for any new inquiry on this issue is still open, though.