AFFIRMATION OF PROPHETHOOD

Affirmation of Prophethood ~ 249 ~ any visible medium, and how ideas can be transmitted from one to the other with no loss or distortion whatsoever. The perfect form of such communication is known specifically as ‘revelation’ in religious terminology. Revelation, in essence, is a kind of cosmic telepathy. Evidence of its reality clearly emerges from the migratory habits of birds, who move from one part of the world to another along well-defined routes in search of more abundant food and better lives, returning with the changing seasons to their point of departure. Unlike man, who needs information and guidance about routes and destinations before he sets off on a journey, the birds fly swiftly and unerringly towards their destination along ‘flyways’ which take them across wide stretches of water at their narrowest points thus keeping them above land for the maximum period possible. There is no evidence that for this to happen any information-gathering process or any exchange of ideas takes place. We must assume then that their guidance is from some external source, just as, according to the Quran, God made certain revelations to the bee (16:68) which led to its