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The Qurân is revelation from Allah
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The Qurân is revelation from Allah


Revelation is where Allah imparts whatever knowledge He wills to
those whom He chooses to receive it. Allah gives this knowledge to
them in order for them to convey it to whomever else He wishes.
All the Messengers of Allah experienced revelation. Allah says:
Verily, We have sent Revelation to you (O Muhammad) as We have sent
Revelation to Noah and the prophets who came after him. We had sent
revelation to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, the Tribes, Jesus, Job,
Jonah, Aaron, and Solomon. And to David We gave the Psalms. And
Messengers We have told you about before, and Messengers We have not
told you about – and to Moses We spoke directly.


The possibility of divine revelation cannot be denied by anyone who
believes in the existence of Allah and in His omnipotence. Allah
maintains His creation in any manner that pleases Him. The connection
between the Creator and his Creation is by way of His Messengers, and
these Messengers only know what Allah wants from them by way of
revelation, either directly or indirectly. The rational mind cannot
dismiss the possibility of revelation, since nothing is difficult for
the all-powerful Creator. The Nature of Revelation Revelation is not a
personal experience that a Prophet brings forth from within himself.
It is not a spiritual state that a person can attain by doing certain
meditations or spiritual exercises. Quite the contrary, revelation is
a communication between two beings: one that speaks, commands, and
gives, and another who is addressed, commanded, and receives. Prophet
Muhammad (peace be upon him) – as with every Prophet – never confused
himself with the One who gave the revelation to him. As a human being,
he felt his weakness before Allah, feared Allah’s wrath if he should
disobey, and hoped for Allah’s mercy. He sought help from Allah,
submitted to what he was commanded to do, and was on occasion even
sternly reprimanded by Allah. The Prophet (peace be upon him) admitted
his absolute inability to alter even one word of Allah’s Book. Allah
says: And when Our clear signs are recited to them, those who hope not
for a meeting with Us say: `Bring a Qur’ân other than this or change
it.’ Say (O Muhammad): `It is not for me to change it of my own
accord. I only follow what is revealed to me. I fear, if I were to
disobey my Lord, the punishment of an awful day.’ Say: `If Allah had
willed, I would not have recited it to you nor would He have made it
known to you. I have lived with you a whole lifetime before it came to
me. Have you no sense?’ This should make perfectly clear the
difference between the essence, attributes, and ways of the Creator
and those of His Creation. The Prophet (peace be upon him) took great
care to maintain a distinction between his own speech (the Hadîth) and
the direct speech of Allah, though both were the result of revelation.
For this reason, in the early period of revelation, he used to
prohibit anything that he uttered to be written down except for the
Qur’ân. This preserved for the Qur’ân its distinctiveness as being the
very word of Allah, unmixed with the speech of people. The Prophet
(peace be upon him) would also make a distinction in his own speech
between his own opinions and what came from Allah as revelation. He
said: "I am only a human being like yourselves. Opinions can be right
or wrong. But, when I say to you that Allah said something, then know
that I will never attribute something false to Allah." The Prophet
(peace be upon him) had no hand in the revelation that he received.
Revelation is a force external to the being of the Prophet (peace be
upon him). He was not able to manipulate it in any way. This is
supported by the fact that certain crises would befall the Prophet
(peace be upon him) or one of those around him that required an
immediate solution, but he found no verse of Qur’ân to recite to the
people. He had to remain silent and wait, sometimes in desperation,
until Allah, in His wisdom, revealed what was needed. A good example
of this is the time when `A’ishah, the wife of the Prophet (peace be
upon him) was accused of adultery by some of the hypocrites, though
she was innocent. People began to say things that were painful for the
Prophet (peace be upon him) until his heart was about to burst. He was
unable to prohibit this. All he could say was: "O `A’ishah, I have
heard this or that. If you are innocent, then Allah will show your
innocence, and if you fell into sin, then seek Allah’s forgiveness." A
whole month passed like this before the revelation came down declaring
`A’ishah’s innocence and exonerating the household of the Prophet
(peace be upon him). In brief, revelation has nothing to do with the
choices and wishes of the one who receives it. It is an unusual,
external occurrence. It is a force of knowledge, because it gives
knowledge. It is free from error. It comes only with the truth and
guides only to what is right
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