The difference between Rasūl, Nabī, and Muḥaddath
383 In the Name of God the Self-Discloser, the Self-Disclosed! Praise be unto God, the Lord of the worlds! And salutations and blessings be upon the loci of the message, the reception and the discourse! Q: What is the difference between Rasūl, Nabī, and Muḥaddath? As for the matter at hand: thus saith the Camphorated Servant of the Truly Real! The Rasūl (Messenger) is the locus of a total tajallī (Divine Self-Disclosure) legislating and constituting a new ontic horizon, and in this sense He or She is the most complete exteriorization of the Ḥaqīqa Muḥammadīya (the Muḥammadan Reality), wherein the primordial Light becomes norm, law, and world-order. The Nabī (Prophet) is the receptacle of ongoing tajalliyāt (divine self-disclosures) renewing disclosure within an already delimited horizon, standing as a barzakhic intensifier between the founding outpouring and its historical unfolding. The Muḥaddath (one spoken to/inspired) is the locus of mukhāṭaba (unseen discou...
