so that humanity, his mind, and his personal attachments have no interest in them. Hence, the prophets and messengers came with heavenly messages to guide humanity. The prophets did not come with heavenly messages from their own ideas, but rather they came to them through revelation.
This book - which we review in this article - sheds light on the issue of revelation, as an essential value in the system of religious beliefs, especially our Islamic religion.
The author of the book explains the meaning of revelation, and elaborates on the deconstruction of this concept, showing the difference between it and other religious concepts; such as the concept of the prophetic experience, the concept of inspiration, the concept of mysticism, and others. The book also emphasizes that the phenomenon of revelation is a sacredness far removed from sense, experience, reason, conjecture, guess, whims of the psyche, the mood of the Prophet, and his inspiration. However, it is a special case, a special path, and a hidden connection and communication, which some of Allah’s sincere servants obtain, in order to receive the formative truths of existence and the messages of human perfection. They also obtain truths to convey to people on the path of guiding them to salvation and perfection, and building life on the foundations of justice and divine values.
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