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إلهي أن بعده وحيا، كما قال: ﴿ولَقَدْ أُوحِيَ إِلَيْكَ وإِلَى الَّذِينَ من قَبْلِكَ﴾ [الزمر: 65]، ولم يذكر وحيا بعده، وإن لم يلزم هٰذا.

وقد جاء الخبر النبوي الصادق في عيسى ع، وقد كان ممن أوحي إليه قبل رسول الله ص أنه ع «لا يؤمنا إلا منا»، أي بسنتنا، فله الكشف إذا نزل والإلهام، كما لهذه الأمة.

ولا يتخيل في الإلهام أنه ليس بخبر إلهي، ما هو الأمر كذٰلك، بل هو خبر إلهي وإخبار من الله للعبد، على يد ملك مغيب عن هٰذا الملهم، وقد يلهم من الوجه الخاص.

فالرسول والنبي يشهد الملك ويراه رؤية بصر، عندما يوحى إليه، وغير الرسول يحس بأثره، ولا يراه رؤية بصر، فيلهمه الله به ما شاء أن يلهمه، أو يعطيه من الوجه الخاص بارتفاع الوسائط، وهو أجل الإلقاء، وأشرفه.

وهو الذي يجتمع فيه الرسول والولي أيضا، فأصابع الرحمن للوجه الخاص، ولمة الملك للوجه المشترك والإلهام إلهام إلهي، أكثره لا واسطة فيه.

فمن عرفه، عرف كيف يأخذه؛ ومحله النفس؛ قال تعالى: ﴿فَأَلْهَمَها﴾، فالفاعل هويته، فهو الملهم لا غيره ﴿فُجُورَها﴾، ليعلمه لا ليعمل به ﴿وتَقْواها﴾ [الشمس: 8]، ليعلمه ويعمل به.

(العلم بالفجور والتقوى والعمل بميزان الشرع)

فهو إلهام إعلام^[6]، لا كما يظنه من لا علم له، ولذٰلك قال: ﴿وقَدْ خابَ من دَسَّاها﴾ [الشمس: 10]، والدس

stating that there is revelation after him, just as He said, ‘It was revealed to you and to those before you’ [al-Zumar 39:65], without mentioning revelation after him, though this does not necessarily follow.

A truthful prophetic report has come concerning Jesus, peace be upon him, who was among those receiving revelation before the Messenger of God, God's blessings and peace be upon him, that he, peace be upon him, ‘will lead us only as one of us’—that is, according to our Sunna. When he descends, unveiling and inspiration belong to him as to this community.

Do not imagine that inspiration is not a divine report. The affair is not thus. Rather, it is a divine report and God's informing the servant through an angel hidden from the one inspired. He may also be inspired through the particular face.

The messenger and prophet witness the angel and see him through eyesight when revelation comes to them. One other than a messenger senses his effect without seeing him through eyesight. Through him God inspires him with whatever He wills to inspire him with, or gives him from the particular face with intermediaries removed, which is the most majestic and noblest casting.

This is where the messenger and the friend also meet. The All-Merciful's fingers belong to the particular face, and the angel's prompting to the shared face. Inspiration is divine inspiration, most of it without intermediary.

Whoever knows it knows how to receive it. Its locus is the soul. He, exalted is He, said, ‘He inspired it’: the agent is His Ipseity, so He alone is the Inspirer. ‘Its wickedness,’ so that it may know it, not act upon it, ‘and its wariness’ [al-Shams 91:8], so that it may know it and act upon it.

(Knowledge of Wickedness and Wariness, and Acting by the Balance of the Revealed Law)

It is thus an inspiration of instruction^[6], not as one without knowledge supposes. Hence He said, ‘He who buries it has failed’ [al-Shams 91:10]. Burying is