In the Isma'ili belief, God's Speech (kalam Allah) is the everlasting creative command that perpetuates all things and simultaneously embodies the essences of every existent being. This eternal commandment "flows" or "emanates" to prophets through a spiritual hierarchy that consists of the Universal Intellect, Universal Soul, and the angelic intermediaries of Jadd, Fath, and Khayal who are identified with the archangels Seraphiel, Michael (archangel), and Gabriel (Jibra'il in Arabic), respectively.Khalil Andani, "Reconciling Religion and Philosophy: Nāṣir-i Khusraw’s Jāmiʿ al-ḥikmatayn". El-Rouayheb, Khaled, and Sabine Schmidtke. The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy. Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford UP, 2017. As a result, the prophets receive revelations as divine, spiritual, and nonverbal "inspiration" (wahy) and "support" (taʾyīd), through the means of the Holy Spirit, Gabriel, which is a heavenly power that illuminates the souls of the prophets, just as the radiance of light reflects in a mirror. Accordingly, God illuminated Muhammad with a divine light (nur) that constituted the divine nonverbal revelation (through the medium of archangel Gabriel), and Muhammad, then, expressed the divine truths contained within this transmission in the Arabic terms that constitute the Quran. Consequently, the Isma'ilis believe that the Arabic Quran is God’s Speech in a secondary and subordinate sense, as it only verbally expresses the "signs" (āyāt) of God’s actual cosmic commandments.
In the Isma'ili belief, God's Speech (kalam Allah) is the everlasting creative command that perpetuates all things and simultaneously embodies the essences of every existent being. This eternal commandment "flows" or "emanates" to prophets through a spiritual hierarchy that consists of the Universal Intellect Universal Soul, and the angelic intermediaries of Jadd, Fath, and Khayal who are identified with the archangels Seraphiel, Michael (archangel), and Gabriel (Jibra'il in Arabic), respectively.Khalil Andani, "Reconciling Religion and Philosophy: Nāṣir-i Khusraw’s Jāmiʿ al-ḥikmatayn". El-Rouayheb, Khaled, and Sabine Schmidtke. The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy. Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford UP, 2017. As a result, the prophets receive revelations as divine, spiritual, and nonverbal "inspiration" (wahy) and "support" (taʾyīd), through the means of the Holy Spirit, Gabriel, which is a heavenly power that illuminates the souls of the prophets, just as the radiance of light reflects in a mirror. Accordingly, God illuminated Muhammad with a divine light (nur) that constituted the divine nonverbal revelation (through the medium of archangel Gabriel), and Muhammad, then, expressed the divine truths contained within this transmission in the Arabic terms that constitute the Quran. Consequently, the Isma'ilis believe that the Arabic Quran is God’s Speech in a secondary and subordinate sense, as it only verbally expresses the "signs" (āyāt) of God’s actual cosmic commandments.