Imam Mahdi (AHS) said: "Allah instructs and commands me directly, and therefore, I say that I am taught without the medium of the angels and others. I (the author Hazrat Syed Ali) say, that the nature of Prophethood (Nubuwat) is not like this. Angelic medium is very necessary for Prophethood. At this Stage, Allah does not directly communicate to any Prophet, but through divine revelation or inspiration (Wahi) while keeping himself undisclosed.
Allah says: "It is not fitting for a man that Allah should speak to him except inspiration or from behind a veil". (XLII:51).
But the nature, particularly of absolute Sainthood (Vilayat-e-Mutlaqa), which is to be sealed (by Imam Mahdi (AHS)), is that there is no Angelic medium. It can be said that the absence of the angelic medium is a necessity. Because vilayat (sainthood) is one's being near to Allah and the compulsions of this nearness warrant that there should be no angelic medium between Allah and Mahdi (AHS).
Nubuwat (Prophethood) is the name of giving information (to the people) about the commandments of Allah. This gives, so to say, a sense of remoteness which needs a medium. Hence, there is obvious distinction between the two positions, vilayat and nubuwat.
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