The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The difference between a prophet and a messenger ]

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The difference between the Prophet and the Messenger is that if the Spirit delivers to him what we have mentioned, he restricts that ruling to himself specifically, and it is forbidden for him to follow anyone else. This is the Prophet, and if it is said to him, “Convey what has been revealed to you,” either to a specific group like the rest of the Prophets, or to the general public, and that was only for Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace. May God bless him and grant him peace, and no one else had before him, so he was called in this way a messenger, and the one who brought him a message and what he singled out for judgment in himself and forbade that judgment to others is a prophet despite his being a messenger, and if he does not specify in himself a judgment that does not belong to those to whom he was sent, then he is a messenger, not a prophet, and I mean prophecy. Laws that are not for the saints. Every messenger who is not specific to any ruling regarding hims


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