قُلْ نَزَّلَهُۥ رُوحُ ٱلْقُدُسِ مِن رَّبِّكَ بِٱلْحَقِّ لِيُثَبِّتَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَهُدًۭى وَبُشْرَىٰ لِلْمُسْلِمِينَ
Qul nazzalahoo Roohul Qudusi mir Rabbika bilhaqqi liyusabbital lazeena aamanoo wa hudanw wa bushraa lilmuslimeen
Say, [O Muhammad], "The Pure Spirit has brought it down from your Lord in truth to make firm those who believe and as guidance and good tidings to the Muslims."
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The Quran & revelation
16:102Ayah 1128
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Say to them ‘The Holy Spirit Gabriel has revealed it from your Lord with truth bi’l-haqq this is semantically connected to nazzala ‘he Gabriel has revealed it’ to confirm the faith of those who believe by their believing in it when it is revealed and as guidance and good tidings for those who have submitted to God’.
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The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying - the narrator Isma'il transmitted it from Abu Hurairah, and mentioned the tradition about the coming down of revelation-: "So far (is this the case) that when terror is removed from their hearts."
The commencement of (the Divine Inspirations to) Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was in the form of true dreams.
The Angel came to him and said, "Read! In the Name of your Lord Who has created all exists), has
created man from a clot. Read! And your Lord is Most Generous, Who has taught (the writing) by the
pen. (96.1-4)
The commencement of the Divine Inspiration to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was in the form of true dreams. The
Angel came to him and said, "Read, in the Name of your Lord Who has created (all that exists), has
created man a clot. Read! And your Lord is Most Generous" ..(96.1,2,3)
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said to us, "Honesty descended from the Heavens and settled in the roots of the hearts
of men (faithful believers), and then the Qur'an was revealed and the people read the Qur'an, (and
learnt it from it) and also learnt it from the Sunna." Both Qur'an and Sunna strengthened their (the
faithful believers') honesty. (See Hadith No. 208)
(the mother of the faithful believers) Al-Harith bin Hisham asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! How is the Divine Inspiration revealed to you?" Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) replied, "Sometimes it is (revealed) like the ringing of a bell, this form of Inspiration is the hardest of all and then this state passes off after I have grasped what is inspired. Sometimes the Angel comes in the form of a man and talks to me and I grasp whatever he says." 'Aisha added: Verily I saw the Prophet (ﷺ) being inspired divinely on a very cold day and noticed the sweat dropping from his forehead (as the Inspiration was over).
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