And He says:

“When he came to it, he was called from the right side of the valley, in the blessed spot, from the tree: ‘O Moses, indeed I am Allah, Lord of the worlds.’”
[al-Qasas: 30]

And He says:

“Has the story of Moses reached you? * When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Tuwā.”
[al-Nāzi‘āt: 15–16]

What they describe—sounds arising within a person which he hears, whether awake or asleep—happens frequently to ordinary people. The instances of people hearing disembodied voices within themselves are too numerous to count. If Allah’s speaking to Moses was of this kind, then ordinary people share this with him—let alone the prophets, and still more the messengers!

It is well known that Allah singled Moses out by speaking to him in a way not shared by Noah, Abraham, Jesus or other prophets like them.

His claim that this speech takes place through utterances which He creates in the hearing of the one He has chosen to speak to, that this is true speech, and that this is what was exclusive to Moses, is false. This is not the true speaking with which Moses was singled out. Indeed, no nation regards this as true speaking. No one understands speaking in this sense. Rather, this belongs to the realm of dreams; at most, it could be a kind of revelation.

A person may see in a dream that Allah has addressed him at length with words he hears. If this is true speech from Allah, then how much