The next step is inspiration. Inspiration is not only the coming of a single thought, a single idea, but of a flow of ideas. One may express them in poetry, in music, in philosophy, in speech, in writing, in thinking. The inspirations come as many ideas. Inspiration is a developed intuition. The expression of inspiration is according to one's particular ability. If a person speaks a beautiful language, he can express his ideas in that language. All prophets and messengers have received the same message, but they have uttered it in different languages. Why? Because surely it is one idea, one knowledge from heaven, but it is expressed according to the language the receiver is accustomed to, seeing that he has no other with which to express it.

The angels are not as great as man, because though they are gifted with the higher knowledge and are in the higher spheres, they have no power of expression. Man gets his knowledge from the higher source, but expresses it through the means provided by the lower spheres.

The Qur'an tells that God said to the angels, "I am going to create man, who will be the chief of creation."
They asked, "Are we not a satisfactory army of servants who are always busy in Thy praise and admire Thy beauty and glorify Thy name? Why intendest Thou to create one who will do evil and shed blood, as he will do?"
The answer was, "Are you capable of appreciating all that I have made? Can you tell me what are the names of these things that I have made?"
God asks man; man tells Him all the names of things, the things that are sweet or bitter, the names of all manner of things; he knows and enjoys all these things in nature.
That is why God says, "We have created him that he may be the chief of all creation, and enjoy all that We have created."

Therefore those who think that the heavenly knowledge is sufficient are mystical; but the joy of the heavenly knowledge and the full understanding of it come from being able to express it in this world's medium of expression. Therefore man can have knowledge both from within and from the external world. When the two come together, there is a perfect expression.