as Allah Most High says:

“And when I inspired the disciples: ‘Believe in Me and in My Messenger.’” [al-Mā’idah: 111]

He also says:

“And We inspired the mother of Moses: ‘Nurse him.’” [al-Qasas: 7]

Even the inspiration given to the bees is not confined to this, for that too conveys what He wishes to be done, whereas this involves nothing beyond imparting information.

Speaking to another may consist merely of informing him and imparting knowledge, or it may involve asking him to do something or refrain from something—either for his benefit or simply because the command-giver wills it. This latter kind of speaking necessarily includes the former, but the former does not necessarily include the latter. Not everyone who imparts information gives a command, whereas everyone who gives a command has made known what is commanded. Yet he mentioned nothing beyond imparting information, thus confining himself to the lower of the two kinds of instruction within the final degree of speaking.

What he has mentioned is the utmost affirmed by those philosophers, Sabians, and others like them who hold that the world has no beginning. Those who say that Allah speaks through created speech which He creates in something other than Himself are better than these people.

This degree is higher than that of merely imparting information, even when the intention is to convey knowledge, because it conveys information through ordered, audible speech. This is more effective than imparting information merely through what arises within the soul. If those who affirm no speech for Allah except speech created in something other than Himself—even though it consists of letters arranged in sequence—are among the most misguided people according to the early generations of the Muslim community and its leading scholars, then what of those who affirm nothing beyond the mere imparting of information?!

Ahl al-Sunnah do not dispute that such imparting of information does come from Allah