He, the Exalted, said: “[He is] Knower of the unseen, so He does not disclose His unseen to anyone * Except whom He has approved of a messenger, and indeed, He details before him and behind him observers”] 1 , from this divine saying we perceive and touch that the knowledge of the unseen fluctuates between two aspects: either it is spontaneous, essential, and it is what the Creator, Glory be to Him, specified for Himself, or it is by gift and inspiration, and it is what the prophet sent by Him, the Exalted, was specified with, and there did not occur in His speech—Exalted is His praise—what indicates the specification of a third aspect with this magnificent knowledge.
As for what relates to our master, the Commander of the Faithful, the characteristics of lordship in their entirety gathered in him, and it will come to establish that in the coming chapters, and he was not a conveying prophet for it to be said that what he brought of the breaking miracles was from the requirements of prophethood.
[1] Then the people of The Exoteric (Al-Zahir) also argue against us with the speech of our master—His might was mighty—since he said: “Do not call us lords, and say concerning us whatever you willed,” and it escaped them that the meaning of that is: do not call us gods in the plural form, and recognize the aspect of monotheism, this is from one perspective.
And from another aspect, in this saying there is a prohibition against disclosing the secret to other than its deserver and an urging for its concealment, meaning narrate from us whatever you will of miracles such as the returning of the sun, the giving of life to a dead person, the knowledge of the unseen, and their like, for that the stubborn ones cannot deny against you due to the establishment of its occurrence, as for the saying of divinity, it is difficult,