Religious Expeerience and Prophetical Revelation

Defining the nature of prophetical revelation and recognizing of its reality are not so easy. There are several interpretations concerning its nature, the one we will discuss in this paper is considering it as a “religious experience”. Can we consider the “Qur’an” as a product of religious experience of the prophet Muhammad (p.b.u)? Can we call the Qur’an as the word of God himself? Is this experience affected by spiritual character of the prophet? Based on this approach to the prophetical revelation, how we can say that the Qur’an is a miracle or is free from arrogation or failure? These are the questions discussed in this paper.