[The Ascension of the Prophet and Miracles]
وَكَرَامَاتُ الأَوْلِيَاءِ حَقٌ، فَيُظْهَرُ الْكَرَامَةَ عَلَى طَرِيقِ نَقْضِ الْعَادَةِ لِلْوَلِي مِنْ قَطْعِ المَسَافَةِ الْبَعِيدَةِ فِي المُدَّةِ الْقَلِيلَةِ، وَظُهُورِ الطَّعَامِ وَالشَّرَابِ وَاللِّبَاسِ عِنْدَ الحَاجَةِ، وَالمَشْيِ عَلَى الماءِ والطَّيَرَانِ فِي الْهَوَاءِ وَكَلامِ الجَمَادِ وَالْعَجْمَاءِ وَغَيْرِ ذلِكَ مِنَ الأَشْيَاءِ، وَيَكُونُ ذلِكَ مُعْجِزَةً لِلرَّسُولِ الَّذِي ظَهَرَتْ هذِهِ الْكَرَامَةُ لِوَاحِدٍ مِنْ أُمَّتِهِ؛ لأَنَّهُ يَظْهَرُ بِهَا أَنَّهُ وَليٌّ، وَلَنْ يَكُونَ وَلِيّاً إِلاَّ أَنْ يَكُونَ مُحِقّاً فِي دِيَانَتِهِ، وَدِيَانَتُهُ الإِقْرَارُ بِرِسَالَةِ رَسُولِهِ.
035- The thaumaturge (karāmāt) of the saints (awliyāʾ) are a reality (ḥaqq). The thaumaturge appears on behalf of the saint by way of contradicting (naqḍ) the customary way of things, such as covering clothing at the time of need, and walking on the water and (flying) in the air, and such as the speaking of inanimate solid objects and of animals, and the warding off of an approaching calamity, and the protection from enemies of him who is anxious, and other things of the same kind. And such a thing is reckoned as an miracle on behalf of the Messenger to one of whose people this act appears, because it is evident from it that he is a saint, and he could never be saint unless he were genuine in [following] his religion (dīn); and his religion is the assertion (iqrār) and afirmation (taṣdīq) of the message of the messenger.