The Gate of Discourse

Abstract

As mentioned earlier, somewhere in Heaven, according to the Qur’ān, God keeps a common, eternal book called the Preserved Tablet or the Mother Book. This celestial scripture, to which Jewish mystical texts of Kabbalah refer as the Jewel of Wisdom, ¹ serves as the shrine of God’s unchanging Truth from which Divine Wisdom (ḥokhmāh in Hebrew; ḥikmah in Arabic) descended to the lower material world in revealed forms, such as the Torah, the New Testament, and the Qur’ān, through several messengers, starting with Abraham and Moses and ending, according to Islam, with Muhammad. Each holy book was delivered in a different language, in Hebrew to Abraham and Moses and in Arabic to Prophet Muhammad.