Receiving Revelation Prophets’ Privilege
Everything that he does is based on divine revelation and this revelation is like an eye and an insight that shows him a new realm of life.
God says in Verse 50 of Surah Al-Ana’am:
“(Muhammad), tell them, ‘I do not claim to have all the treasures of God in my hands, nor to know the unseen, nor do I claim to be an angel. I follow only what is revealed to me (from God).’ Say to them, ‘Are the blind and the seeing equal? Why then do you not think?’”
God in this verse emphasizes that the Holy Prophet (PBUH) is not an angel, does not claim to know the unseen and does not hold divine treasures. He is a human like other humans and whatever he does is based on the revelation which gives him insight.
Other people have the divine Fitrat in their soul that helps them distinguish between the truth and falsehood but as a result of ignorance and negligence and due to the dominance of worldly desires, that Fitrat has been obscured. The prophet removes the veil from their Fitrat and brings a light with which they can see the truth.
The prophet is not different from other people. He eats and drinks, walks in the market, has been born and will die, gets married, has children, etc.
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He, of course, does not follow worldly desires and is away from spitefulness, hate, conceit, haughtiness, envy, and selfishness. He is away from vices and has all the virtues.
Many thinkers believe that Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) privilege is in being with the people and in the fact that his religion is in accordance with people’s material, spiritual, social and ethical needs.
