“Thus We have revealed to you, [Muhammad], a lifegiving message, at Our behest. Prior to it, you did not know what revelation is, nor what faith implies.”
(42: 52)
“No knowledge would I have had of what passed on high when they argued.”
(38: 69.)
“This Qur’an could not have been devised by anyone other than God. It certainly confirms the truth of whatever remains [of earlier revelations] and clearly spells out the Book, revealed without doubt by the Lord of all the worlds.”
(10: 37.)
Now let us consider how a perfect mind deals with prophesies of matters unknown. It can only rely on its past experience, making it a light that may predict a few steps along the course of future events.
In other words, it makes that which is known and already experienced a criterion by which to judge what is to come. Its judgement is always taken very cautiously, saying: “This is what may be deduced if matters are to follow their natural course, and provided that nothing out of the ordinary takes place.”
Making a firm prediction, with definite details, even in matters that are not indicated by a scientific premise or an informed guess, is done only by one of two types of person. The first is a person who does not care what people say about him, or whether they describe him as a liar. This is the behaviour of fortune tellers.