The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam — Page 175
174 Ā'ĪNA-E-KAMĀLĀT-E-ISLĀM―DĀFI‘UL-WASĀWIS mostly refers only to such manifestations. Otherwise, one should just reflect that the Sun of Truth [the Holy Prophet as] about whom the verse was revealed: وَمَا يَنْطِقُ عَنِ الْهَوَى إِنْ هُوَ إِلا وَحَى يولى 0 Meaning that none of his words or discourses proceeds from his own desire; that it is waḥy [revelation] in its entirety that descends upon his heart how can we think about him that he remained altogether deprived of the light of waḥy for lengthy durations of time? It is writ- ten, for example, that on some occasions, there was no waḥy for twenty, sometimes forty, or even sixty days at times. AUTHOR'S MARGIN NOTE If our Holy Prophet sas remained totally separated from the Holy Spirit for 40 days or more, then the words spoken during those days should not be a part of the aḥadīth, nor should they be said to be revealed. If such an absence of waḥy means that the Angel Gabriel totally left the Holy Prophets for such periods of time, it would raise a serious objection: To the extent that the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, made statements during this period, were they not included in his Prophetic Hadith? Were they not called waḥye ghair matlu [non-recited revelation]? Did the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, not have dream during that time, which clearly is a form of waḥy? And if Respected Baṭālawi and Miyań Nadhīr Ḥusain of Delhi were right, and if it were true that, for long periods of time, Gabriel parted from the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and left him totally devoid of waḥy, then undoubtedly the reports of the Prophet's aḥā- dith during those days must not be reliable in the eyes of these gen- tlemen, for they would lack the light of waḥy. And, according to any 1. Sūrah an-Najm, 53:4-5 [Publisher]