Taḥdīth and the Synonym and Substitute Words

One of the ways the divinely guides connect to the Kingdom is taḥdīth (lit. to talk or to speak and means the dialogue between humans and angels) and it is applied to one who has not the place of prophecy, but is present among people to guide them. In the narrations there are many words to explain this place and its quality, some of which used to explain its quality that could be counted as the substitute words of taḥdīth and consist in: ḳathf, nakt, ḳar’, naḳr and waḳr; and some other explain the place of taḥdīth that are: waḥy (revelation) and ilhām (inspiration) that are synonyms of taḥdīth. To explain the concept of taḥdīth, in this article, every one of these words have been examined and tried to gain their affinities and difference that accordingly the usage of these words in the narrations of the Imams (AS) on the basis of quantitative and qualitative aspects of taḥdīth could be extracted.