The metaphysical miracle
The unseen miracle is called the telling of what was absent from the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and his people, from what they did not witness of events that occurred, or they did not attend at the time, and they were not aware of its details, and it includes the unseen of the past, the unseen of the present, and the unseen of the future.
An example of this type of miracle is the news of the victory of the Romans over the Persians after the Persians had defeated the Romans. It came in Surat Al-Rum: {Proverbs 1: The Romans have been defeated 2 In the lowest part of the earth, and after their victory they will be defeated 3 In a few years, God has command before and after. Then, on that Day, the believers will rejoice 4 in the victory of God. He helps whom He wills, and He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.
The origin of the incident is that the Persians defeated the Romans, so the Muslims were saddened because the Romans were people of the book, while the Persians were idolaters. The infidels of Mecca resented the Prophet Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, and his companions, so God revealed the previous verses as a challenge to the Arabs and good tidings to the believers. These events fall under the concept of unseen miracles by informing about the future. These three informations are:
The news of the defeat of the Romans to the Persians in a few years.The news that the day of the defeat of the Persians will be a day of joy for the Muslims, and this day coincided with the day the Muslims were victorious in the Battle of Badr.Telling the place where they will be defeated, which is (the lowest of the earth).
Foreign historical sources refer to the events of this battle, as it states that the first defeat of the Romans at the hands of the Persians was around the year 617, while the victory of the Romans over the Persians was around the year 627, and the difference between the two dates is approximately 10 years, which corresponds to the word (few) in The Holy Quran, which means: the number from three to ten. Where it says in the dictionary of Lisan al-Arab:
In addition, Surah Al-Rum is a Meccan surah, according to the agreement of the scholars (that is, it was revealed when the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, was in Makkah Al-Mukarramah before the migration to Medina). It is proven in Islamic history that the migration of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, was in approximately 622 AD. This indicates that the Qur’an’s news of the occurrence of a battle between the Romans and the Persians, and the victory of the Romans in it, came before the battle took place in the first place. Foreign sources mention the events of the battle as follows:
When Khosrau (Khosrau) the first, king of the Persians, died due to ill health, Persia went through a series of transfers of power and succession, which later led to the installation of Khosrau (Khisrau II, nicknamed Pervez) supported by the Byzantines (the Romans) as king over the Persians. And when the Byzantine Emperor Mauricius ( who had supported Khosrau II to ascend the Persian throne and was a dear friend to him), the Byzantine Emperor Phocas took over, Khosrau II declared war on the Byzantines in an attempt to take revenge on the usurper of power (he meant Phocas). Hierapolis, Aleppo, Apamea, Caesarea, Damascus and all the surrounding cities within eight years (605-613) Khosrau II felt the overwhelming joy of this victory and decided to abandon the religious tolerance that was thriving within the Persian Empire in the Achaemenid times, so he also declared jihad against the Christians.
After declaring a jihad, 26,000 Jews joined his army, and in 614 Jerusalem fell to the Persians. Christians were massacred, their churches burned to the ground, and the True Cross (on which Jesus was believed to have been crucified) was taken to Persia. In 616 the Persians captured Alexandria and by 619 all of Egypt (up to the borders of Ethiopia) was again under Persian rule. Meanwhile, another Persian army invaded Asia Minor in 617 (Shahin's conquest of Asia Minor) and captured the city of Chalcedon. The Persians kept the city for ten years, and only the Bosphorus Strait separated them from Constantinople (the Byzantine capital). Khosrau II taxed the former Byzantine provinces and reduced them to extreme poverty. For the first time in many years, one side was able to control the other's territory.
Khosrau II returned to his palace, and his victory was hailed as the final victory of Persia over Greece and Rome, as the victory of the god Ahura Mazda over Christ, and as revenge for his loss in the battles of Marathon, Salamis, Plataea, and Arbela. Nothing remained of the Byzantine Empire except for a few Asian seaports (from Tire to Trebizond), some parts of Italy, Sicily, Africa, the Balkan coast, Greece, a besieged capital and a still undefeated navy. The defeat was so bad that when Heraclius ascended the throne he announced the transfer of the capital to Carthage where it would be safe, but was prevented by the Patriarch of Constantinople. Ironically in the end, Khosrow II's favorite and most influential wife was a Christian, and once again Khosrow II allowed Christianity to be tolerated in Persia.
However, the Byzantines were not completely defeated. After ten years, Heraclius (successor of Phocas), who ruled from 610 to 641, was able to build a new army. In 624 he sailed across the Black Sea, reached Armenia, and invaded Persia from behind, a battle known as the Byzantine Crusade, while his Turkish allies attacked Persia through Georgia. Persia, whose forces had spread from Anatolia to Egypt, was unprepared for such an attack, which proved decisive in Heraclius' campaign.
Just as Chosroes II desecrated Jerusalem, Heraclius took revenge and destroyed the city of Chloromea (the birthplace of the Persian prophet Zoroaster, and extinguished its sacred light). Heraclius defeated Chosroes II's army in Armenia, while his brother Theodoros defeated a second Persian army in the west. Meanwhile, the Persians and their Avar allies besieged Constantinople in 626, but this siege failed. The last battle between the Byzantines and the Persians was the Battle of Nineveh in 627, which ended in the defeat of the Persians. Khosrau II fled to the city of Ctesiphon, where he was later killed by one of his sons (Kavad II), who later reconciled with Heraclius and returned all the lands conquered by Persia to the Byzantines with the True Cross.