Shaykh Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī · Stories of people with long lifespans from Arabs and non-Arabs are famous and chronicled in books and history.
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فإن كان المخالف لنا في ذلك من يحيل ذلك من المنجمين وأصحاب الطبائع فالكلام معهم في أصل هذه المسألة وأن العالم مصنوع وله صانع أجرى العادة بقصر الأعمار وطولها وأنه قادر على إطالتها وعلى إفنائها فإذا بين ذلك سهل الكلام. وإن كان المخالف في ذلك من يسلم ذلك غير أنه يقول هذا خارج عن العادات فقد بينا أنه ليس بخارج عن جميع العادات. ومتى قالوا خارج عن عادتنا،قلنا وما المانع منه.فإن قيل ذلك لا يجوز إلا في زمن الأنبياء، قلنا نحن ننازع في ذلك وعندنا يجوز خرق العادات على يد الأنبياء والأئمة والصالحين،وأكثر أصحاب الحديث يجوزون ذلك وكثير من المعتزلة والحشوية وإن سموا ذلك كرامات كان ذلك خلافا في عبارة وقد دللنا على جواز ذلك في كتبنا وبينا أن المعجز إنما يدل على صدق من يظهر على يده ثم نعلمه نبيا أو إماما أو صالحا لقوله وكلما يذكرونه من شبههم قد بينا الوجه في كتبنا لا نطول بذكره هاهنا.
If our opponent considers this impossible from astrologers and physicists, then the inquiry is about the basis of this question. The world is a creation and it has a Creator, Who has set the ordinary norms of short and long lives and He is capable of lengthening lives and taking lives. If this is clarified, then the inquiry becomes easy. If our opponent accepts this, but says this is out of the ordinary norms, we have already responded that it is not out of all of the ordinary events. If he says it is out of the bounds of our ordinary events, we will ask: What is wrong with that? If it is said that such events are not possible, except during the times of the prophets, we will say that we dispute this assertion. We believe that extraordinary events can be worked by prophets, Imams and even virtuous servants of God. The majority tradition scholars and many Mutazalites and Hashawiyya accept this. And if they call them “Karamat,” that is a difference only in words. We have proved the possibility of these events in our books and explained that extraordinary events prove the truth of the person, who brings them forth; and we discern he is either prophet, Imam or a virtuous man. We have responded to all the doubts they raise with this regard in our books and will not prolong the discussion by bringing them here again.
Translation: Sayyid Athar Husain S. H. Rizvi — published with the edition, reproduced verbatim.
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