The 300-year life of the Sleepers of the Cave in the Quran - 3

 The Sleepers of the Cave

The Seven Sleepers

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Regarding the debates related to the miracles of the prophets, we also say that a miracle does not mean doing something intellectually impossible. It is because the intellectual impossibility. Such as the inherent impossibility. Or as the meeting of opposites in a single place and at a single time. Or as a work whose existence eventually leads to a rational impossibility. It is impossible according to the judgment of reason. In other words, it is outside of the circle of power. Basically, it is meaningless to use the word "power" about it. It's like if someone wants something to exist as well as not to exist. Or to put a huge rock in the shell of an egg without the rock getting smaller. Or the egg getting bigger to fit in it. These kinds of proposals create a contradiction within themselves. That is, the proposal itself is wrong. Infact, its meaning is that a person wants and does not want something.

Therefore, intellectual impossibilities cannot be raised neither in the discussion of miracles nor in any other discussion. What can be imagined is an ordinary impossibility. A miracle is just an ordinary impossibility. According to the usual procedure of the law of cause and effect, such a thing cannot be realized with ordinary means and conditions. As well as with the human power. But there is no obstacle to achieve it with divine power.[1]

The subject of several hundred years of sleep of the “Seven Sleepers” is also the same as the last mentioned. When we think about such a subject with our limitations and limited scales, we think it is impossible. Because we may not have seen its example around us. But such a thing is completely possible in terms of biology. There is no intellectual prohibition or inherent impossibility to imagine it. [2]

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