Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 248
248 And He has taught you what you knew not and great is Allah’s grace on you. And then God promises to bestow knowledge and teaches the prayer: 7 َو ْلُق ِّبَّر ْيِنْدِز اًمْلِع O my Lord, increase me in knowledge. What all these verses show is that Divine Messengers are granted special Divine knowledge. Accordingly, the Promised Messiah as was also blessed with knowledge from God. The only difference is that while past Prophets were only blessed with spiritual knowl - edge, the Promised Messiah as —in his capacity as a servant of the Holy Prophet s as —was blessed with both implicit and explicit knowledge. In other words, he was not only gifted with spiritual knowledge but also with the ability to communicate it eloquently. God so distinguished him that no one could surpass him in either attaining spiritual knowledge or in communicating it. Of the two kinds of knowledge, I will first take up explicit knowledge. The only person who was given this miracle before him was the Holy Prophet s as , and it was not given to any other Prophet. Allah says the following regarding the Revelation that descended upon the Holy Prophet s as : َو ْنِا ْمُتْنُك ْيِف ٍبْيَر اَّمِّم اَنْلَّزَن ىٰلَع اَنِدْبَع اْوُتْاَف ٍةَرْوُسِب ْنِّم ٖهِلْثِّم١۪ َو اْوُعْدا ْمُكَءٓاَدَهُش ْنِّم ِنْوُد 8 ِهّٰللا ْنِا ْمُتْنُك َنْيِقِدٰص And if you are in doubt as to what We have sent down to