Second essential:

The Messenger is a human being and so acts as a human being. He is also a Messenger of God and thus an interpreter and envoy of the All-Mighty.

His message is based on the two kinds of Divine revelation: explicit and implicit. In the case of explicit revelation, the Messenger merely interprets and announces—he has no share in its content. The Qur'an and those Sacred Traditions (hadith qudsi) whose meaning and content belong to God exclusively but whose wording belongs to the Prophet, are included here. In the case of implicit revelation, the essence and origin of which is based on Divine revelation and inspiration, the Prophet is allowed to explain and describe them. When he does so, he relies either on direct revelation and inspiration or on his own insight. When giving his own interpretation, he either relies on the perceptive power bestowed upon him due to his Prophetic mission or speaks as a person conforming to his time's common usages, customs, and kinds of comprehension.

Thus not all details of every Prophetic Tradition are necessarily derived from pure Revelation, nor are the sublime signs of his Messengership to be sought in his human thoughts and transactions. Since some truths are revealed to him in a brief and abstract form, and he describes them through his insight and in accord with normal understanding, the metaphors, allegories, or ambiguities he uses may need explanation or interpretation. Remember that the human mind can grasp some truths only through analogy. For example, once a loud noise was heard in the Prophet's presence. He said: "This is the noise of a rock that has been rolling downwards for years and now has reached Hell's lowest depths." An hour later, news came that a notorious hypocrite who recently had reached the age of had died and gone to Hell. This report showed the interpretation of the Prophet's eloquent parable.