The prophetic mission in a general sense can relatively easily be defined as a message that the prophet-messenger took upon himself to convey to his contemporaries and, through them, to a specific nation and to all humanity. However, the exegeses of this mission and its content remain infinitelydiverse. Determining the meaning of nubuwwa (prophethood)Nor (revelation) is one of the most difficult tasks that may confront a scholar. It is a variable concept, which changes with different religions, cultures, and times. Moreover, it relates to God, “that mystery which separates us when revealed and which unites us when it remains abiding within.”1 Grasping the concept of nubuwwa or and pinning it down to a definition is made even more difficult by the fact that it refers to unique historical experiences, which are impossible to recapture. Those who had these experiences were certainly human, but they were nonetheless endowed with traits not found in ordinary people. Thus
The prophetic mission in a general sense can relatively easily be defined as a message that the prophet-messenger took upon himself to convey to his contemporaries and, through them, to a specific nation and to all humanity. However, the exegeses of this mission and its content remain infinitely diverse. Determining the meaning of nubuwwa (prophethood) or (revelation) is one of the most difficult tasks that may confront a scholar. It is a variable concept, which changes with different religions, cultures, and times. Moreover, it relates to God, “that mystery which separates us when revealed and which unites us when it remains abiding
within.”1 Grasping the concept of nubuwwa or and pinning it down to a definition is made even more difficult by the fact that it refers to unique historical experiences,
which are impossible to recapture. Those who had these experiences were certainly human, but they were nonetheless endowed with traits not found in ordinary people.
to be continued...
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