is one of the most baseless falsehoods, for how could it not be when it pertains to the attributes of the Lord of the Worlds, who alone possesses the knowledge of the unseen and awareness of what is in the hearts. I wonder how these people can make such a false claim when Allāh says in His Book: *"Knower of the unseen, and He does not disclose His unseen to anyone except a messenger whom He has chosen"*. Do they believe that those saints are messengers of Allāh so that it could be said they are informed of the unseen by Allāh's disclosure to them? Glory be to You, this is a great falsehood. Even if what happened to ʿUmar (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu) could be correctly termed as unveiling, it is among the extraordinary occurrences that may also happen to a disbeliever. Thus, the mere occurrence of such an event does not indicate the faith of the one from whom it emanated, let alone indicate their sainthood. Therefore, scholars say that an extraordinary event, if it occurs from a Muslim, is a karāmah, otherwise it is a deception. They cite as an example the extraordinary feats that will occur at the hands of the greatest impostor in the end times, such as his command to the sky: "Rain," and it rains, and to the earth: "Grow your vegetation," and it grows, among other things mentioned in authentic ḥadīths. A modern example of this is what I read today in the "August" issue of the sixth year of the magazine "al-Mukhtār" under the title: "This World Full of Mysteries Beyond the Five Senses" on page 23, the story of "A young girl who went to South Africa to marry her fiancé. After bitter conflicts with him, she broke off the engagement after three weeks. The girl paced her room in distress, crying out inwardly without ceasing: 'Oh mother, what should I do?' But she decided not to trouble her mother by mentioning what had happened to her. Four weeks later, she received a letter from her mother saying: 'What happened? I was descending the stairs when I heard you crying out, saying: "Oh mother, what should I do?"' The date of the letter coincided with the day she was crying out from within. The article referred to contains other examples of what is today called "telepathy" and "clairvoyance," known as "second sight." We have sufficed with what we have mentioned because they are the examples most similar to the story of ʿUmar (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu), which I have often heard denied by Muslims who think it is irrational or that it implies attributing knowledge of the unseen to ʿUmar, while others, whom we have referred to among the Sufis, exploit it to prove the possibility