Al-Mizan and the Nature of Analyzing Revelation

Revelation as “divine message for prophets to guide people” is the foundation and strength of divine laws and most valuable celestial substance for people on the earth, which is inextricably connected with man’s nature and destiny. Revelation falls into different and sometimes wrong analyses due to man’s inability to achieve it. Some regard it the outcome of mental anxiety and desire, intellectual genius, strong affections, religious experience and prophet’s dream-vision. These analyses are wrong, leads to some unacceptable outcomes- for, example, revelation is fallible and a human phenomena- and are incompatible with the explanation on two parties of this relationship: God and prophet. Given the unique role of revelation and the importance of its analysis on the one hand, and the status of invaluable Al-Mizan Commentary on the other hand, the present paper reviews the analysis of revelation from the view of this Commentary. A library method is used to gather data which are evaluated by a descriptive-analytical method. The results show that Al-Mizan Commentary, contrary of other methods of analyses, pays particular attention to the words of origin of revelation and its receiver and regards revelation as God’s presential words which have been revealed to prophets’ heart through manifestation, directly, from beyond the veil, or by angel.