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Wahy (revelation)

الوحي

Wahy in Islamic conception is God's speech sent down to His messengers; 'we bear witness that the Qur'an is the speech of the Lord of the worlds' 1, and the Sharh details that the Qur'an is not created 2.

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Wahy in Islamic conception is God's speech sent down to His messengers; the Qur'an in Sunni creed is the speech of the Lord of the worlds, uncreated 1.

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The Tahawiyya affirms: 'we bear witness that it is the speech of the Lord of the worlds, which the Trustworthy Spirit brought down and taught to mighty hearts' 1; Ibn Abi al-Izz's commentary details what the Qur'an being God's speech means 2.

People and things also explored

Islamic eschatology· Loss and gain in time (al-khusr)· Companions of the Fire and of Paradise· The most beautiful names of God (asma' Allah al-husna)· Selling self and wealth to God (bay al-nafs wal-mal ila Allah)· The Dajjal· The transience of the world (fana al-dunya)· Ghurbat al-Islam (the strangeness of Islam)

Sources

  1. al-Aqida al-Tahawiyya, Dar Ibn Hazm 1995 , §75
  2. Sharh al-Tahawiyya, Ibn Abi al-Izz al-Hanafi (Dar al-Hadith, Cairo)
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islam.museum contributors. “Wahy (revelation)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/wahy/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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Islamic eschatology

Islamic eschatology is the part of the creed concerned with death, the signs of the Hour, resurrection, reckoning and recompense; the Tahawiyya and its Sharh devote a chapter to belief in the signs of the Hour, noting that scholars devoted whole works to its hadiths.