appear after Holy Prophet Muḥammad, the only conclusion that can be drawn from it is that the door has been closed on that highest form of revelation; but by no stretch of words can revelation itself be said to have come to an end. The granting of revelation to those who are not prophets being an admitted fact, as shown before on the basis of clear Quranic verses, revelation remains, and humanity will always have access to this great Divine blessing, though prophethood, having reached its perfection, has naturally come to an end. The doctrine of the continuance of revelation is clearly upheld in the Holy Qur’ān and the Ḥadīth. The former says: “Those who believe and guard against evil, for them is good news (bush) in this world’s life and in the Hereafter” (10:63, 64). The bushgranted in this world’s life are “good visions which the Muslim sees or which are shown to him,” according to a saying of the Holy Prophet (Rz). And according to one of the most reliable Ḥadīth, bushor mubashshirāt — both words having the same significance — are a part of prophethood. Thus the Holy Prophet is reported to have said: “Nothing remains of prophethood but mubashshirāt,” (Bu. 92:5). Being asked what was meant by mubashshirāt, he replied, “good (or true) visions” (Bu. 92:5). According to another ḥadīth he is reported to have said: “The vision of the believer is one of the forty-six parts of prophet-hood” (Bu. 92: 4). In another version of the same report, instead of the vision of the believer, the words are good (or true) visions (ru’yā ṣāliḥah). The word vision is used here in a wide sense, and includes the inspiration which is granted to the righteous. For we are told in yet another ḥadīth: “There used to be among those who were before you persons who were spoken to (by God) though they were not prophets; if there is such a one among my people, it is ‘Umar’ (Bu. 62:6). All these ḥadīth and the Quranic verses quoted above afford enough proof that revelation in some of its lower forms is continued after the Holy Prophet, and it is only the highest form of revelation — that brought by Gabriel — which has been discontinued with the termination of prophethood.

Kalām (speaking) is an attribute of the Divine Being

It is thus one of the basic principles of Islām that God speaks as He hears and sees. It has been said that God is never spoken of in the