The Non-Expandability of Prophetic Experience

"Revelation" has a special place in Abrahamic religions and the basis of the sending of prophets and the boundary of distinguishing divine religions from human schools and thoughts is "revelation" which is a category beyond the horizon of human thought and proves its authenticity and truthfulness with definite reasons and signs in its text and is only given to some deserving people by God Almighty. From the point of view of Muslims, revelation is a sacred, meta-experiential, meta-historical, and occult phenomenon that was instilled by God to the prophets for the guidance of mankind. The Holy Qur'an is the embodiment of divine revelation, whose wording, form, words, and language are also the divine word according to the consensus of Muslims, and it is at the disposal of mankind through the ages and centuries with amazing characteristics and unique rhetoric, and through its recitation, one can communicate with his creator. The expansion of prophetic experience is a theory based on which revelation is not exclusive to the Prophet (PBUH) and prophetic experiences continue in different people after the Prophet of Islam (PBUH). The theoretical basis of this view is the religious experience of revelation. In general, there are two main views about the nature of revelation, which are propositional revelation and experimental revelation. Based on propositional revelation, God reveals truths and propositions to the Prophet, but based on experiential revelation, the Prophet has an encounter with God and conveys the interpretation of that encounter and his religious experience to others. After describing the view of religious experience and its basic concepts, the article points out the grounds for the emergence of this theory and after criticizing this view, it states the differences between revelation and religious experience. Considering the criticisms that have the perspective of religious experience and also the fundamental differences that exist between revelation and religious experience, we cannot accept the above point of view, i.e. religious experience, regarding revelation and especially the Islamic revelation that was revealed to the Holy Prophet (PBUH).

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prophet ، revelation ، religious experience