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SpiritualRoadmapbyGhazali, page : 103
This argument shows that it is possible for there to be a way of apprehending
these matters which are not apprehended by the intellect. This is the meaning
of prophetic revelation. That is not to say that prophecy is merely an expression
for such knowledge. Rather, the apprehending of this class of extra-intellectual
objects is one of the properties of prophecy; but it has many other properties as
well. The said property is but a drop in the ocean of prophecy. It has been
singled out for mention because you have something analogous to it in what
you apprehend in dreaming, and because you have medical and astronomical
knowledge belonging to the same class, namely, the miracles of the prophets,⁸
for the intellectuals cannot arrive at these at all by any intellectual efforts.
The other properties of prophetic revelation are apprehended only by
immediate experience (Thawq) from the practice of the mystic way, but this
property of prophecy you can understand by analogy as the dream-state. If the
prophet possessed a faculty to which you had nothing comparable and which
you did not understand, how could you believe in it? Believing presumes
understanding. That comparable experience comes to a man in the early stages
of the mystic way. Thereby he attains a kind of immediate experience, extending
as far as that to which he has attained, and by analogy to a kind of belief or
these matters which are not apprehended by the intellect. This is the meaning
of prophetic revelation. That is not to say that prophecy is merely an expression
for such knowledge. Rather, the apprehending of this class of extra-intellectual
objects is one of the properties of prophecy; but it has many other properties as
well. The said property is but a drop in the ocean of prophecy. It has been
singled out for mention because you have something analogous to it in what
you apprehend in dreaming, and because you have medical and astronomical
knowledge belonging to the same class, namely, the miracles of the prophets,⁸
for the intellectuals cannot arrive at these at all by any intellectual efforts.
The other properties of prophetic revelation are apprehended only by
immediate experience (Thawq) from the practice of the mystic way, but this
property of prophecy you can understand by analogy as the dream-state. If the
prophet possessed a faculty to which you had nothing comparable and which
you did not understand, how could you believe in it? Believing presumes
understanding. That comparable experience comes to a man in the early stages
of the mystic way. Thereby he attains a kind of immediate experience, extending
as far as that to which he has attained, and by analogy to a kind of belief or