The Quran (recitation) is the sacred book of the Islamic world. According to tradition, it was dictated by Allah himself. Muhammad wrote it in rhymed prose and divided it into 114 chapters or suras. It consists of a collection of sentences, laws, and norms that provide believers with a vision of the world and life, divinity, economy, politics, heaven and hell, the Last Judgment, and the resurrection of the flesh.
Islam is a revealed religion. There is a crucial moment in Muhammad’s life that he reached after a long psychoreligious evolution (Caetani), either suddenly and unexpectedly (Buhl) (*44 2 et seq. and *97 1), when he was first presented with prophetic inspiration (*2 181), and the first chapter (sura) was revealed to him (Chapter 96 or 74). For Muhammad, these revelations came from a divine book, an archetype stored in heaven (Mother of the Book, luminous book, etc.), known only to the pure ones (*56 76, *85 21, *43 2 et seq., *80 13). Personally, he did not read it, but different translated fragments were recited to him in pure Arabic language (*12 2, *13 37, *20 112, *26 195, *41 2, *44 58, *41 44), which, together, represented only a fraction of the original (*40 78, *4 162). God communicated it to him in pieces (*75 16) through the Spirit (*26 193 et seq., *16 104, *42 52) or the angels (*16 2, *15 8, *53 5 et seq., *81 19 et seq.). Only in one Medina verse is it clearly specified that Gabriel is in charge of the transmission (*2 91). This revelation is almost never accompanied by visions (*8 45, *48 27), but when it does happen, as in the case of the Isra (Chapter 17, verse 1), what is essential is not what is heard but what is seen (*53 10-11, *81 19).
Source: Shiva Shambho
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