A026
Surah: 072 - Ayah: 026
Click here to see the translations
72:28
It is mentioned in the Glorious Qur'an (72:26,27), that God reveals His secrets, namely the invisible world (alam-i ghayb) unto none, except a chosen prophet. This shows that the spirituality of the Qur'an, which was revealed to the Prophet, was the revelation of God's secrets to him, and the same was the observation of the world of his personal spirituality. This shows that his successor also has the same status. For the transference of the light of the Qur'an to the Prophet's true successor means that God's secrets are revealed unto him also.
Abu Hatim RazI, for example, devoted the seventh chapter of his AHdm al-nubuwwa to establish that the Prophets were the real fountainheads of all knowledge. They then bequeathed this knowledge to the sages. According to RazI, knowledge and science spring from the first sage (al-hakim al-awwal), Adam, to whom God taught the names directly. All worldly and spiritual knowledge was contained in these names. Through the ages God taught His Prophets everything that people needed to know, both in a worldly and a spiritual sense. He shared His knowledge of the external and internal worlds exclusively with the Prophets. As the Qur'an declares: "He is the knower of the unseen (ghayb), and He does not reveal His unseen to anyone, except to a Messenger whom He chooses" (Qur'an 72:26-27). Razi tries to demonstrate that some of those who are considered sages were in fact Prophets. To this end, he gives the example of the Prophet Idris, stating that he is known to the philosophers as Hermes and in the Old Testament as Akhnukh (Enoch).
This verse has been referred 1 times.