A Simple Guide to ISLAM
The Qur’an
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Assignment of duty to both living and non-living things:
And thy Lord commanded the Bee to build its cells in
the hills. (16:68)
And He assigned to each heaven
its duty and
command. (41:12)
To converse silently:
Then (
Zakariyya
) came out from the shrine and told
them by signs to give glory to their Lord morning and
evening. (19:11)
In the instance mentioned above the word
wahy
is used in its literal
sense. But the word
wahy
has been used more often in the Qur’an
for the divine revelation made to the prophets:
“Surely we have revealed
(awhaina)
to thee as we
revealed to Noah and the Prophet after him........”.
(4:163)
Then we revealed to Musa to strike the Sea with his
staff. (7:31)
And we revealed to Noah. (11:36)
FORMS OF REVELATION
The Quran is composed of
wahy matlu
, the recited words, and the
traditions
(ahadith)
are composed of
wahy Ghair Matlu
.
The Quran states:
