rasul
(rasūl)
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Envoy, messenger. |
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In theology: divine messenger. It is in his function of rasūl that a prophet (nabī) promulgates a new sacred law; not every prophet is necessarily a rasūl, although he enjoys divine inspiration, but every rasūl is by implication a nabī. |
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Introduction to Sufi Doctrine (by Titus Burckhardt) |
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