Revelation

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Śruti or shruti (, , ) in Sanskrit means "that which is heard" and refers to the body of most authoritative, ancient religious texts comprising the central canon of Hinduism. Manusmriti states: Śrutistu vedo vijñeyaḥ (Devanagari: श्रुतिस्तु वेदो विज्ञेयः) meaning, "Know that Vedas are Śruti". Thus, it includes the four Vedas including its four types of embedded texts—the Samhitas, the Upanishads, the Brahmanas and the Aranyakas.

something seen in a dream, trance, or religious ecstasy

Waḥy (also waḥi, , ; : , ) is the Arabic word for revelation. In Islamic belief, revelations are God's word delivered by his chosen individuals – known as messenger prophets – to mankind.

foundational event in the Islamic religion, traditionally dated to 610 CE at the Cave of Hira

Bahá'í doctrine that religious truth is revealed by God progressively

in the Catholic Church, a revelation from God to a specific Christian

knowledge about God and spiritual matters discovered through natural means

Tanzīl (), inzāl (), and nuzūl (), and other words based on the Arabic triconsonantal root (, 'downward movement'), refers to the Islamic belief in the descent of God's message from heaven to Earth as speech, and sometimes visual, revelations to the Islamic prophet Muhammad with Gabriel as the conveyor, and occasionally God Himself.

religious concept

Doctrine in some Christian churches