WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE OF UNSEEN/ELUM-E-GHAIB

Generally known definition of Elum-e-ghaib is "Knowledge of Uknown is called Elum e Ghaib"

More specific and correct definition of Elum-e-Ghaib is "Knowledge of unknown/unseen with out any source is called Elum e Ghaib"

First we need to understand the correct definition of Elum-e-Gaib it will help us in understanding ayats related to that topic.


Quran:13.Ar-Ra'd: 8-9
Allah knows what every female carries and what the wombs lose [prematurely] or exceed. And everything with Him is by due measure.The knower of the unseen and the seen, the Great, the Most High.

Quran:31.Luqman: 34
Indeed, Allah [alone] has knowledge of the Hour and sends down the rain and knows what is in the wombs. And no soul perceives what it will earn tomorrow, and no soul perceives in what land it will die. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted.

Here Quran is referring to ELUM e GAIB means no one has the knowledge of unseen except ALLAH . Allah gave example of Womb of mother that you don't know what is in womb of mother because you don't know unseen like saying that you don't know what is behind wall.

Here source comes :

When you see what is in womb of mother through some source then it is no more unseen . you are seeing it through some source and teling what is in womb of mother it is not knowldge of unseen because you are knowing it through some source.Quran didn't say that u cannot invent such tool which can see what is in the womb of mother. Quran is refering to unseen.
When your are telling what is happening behind the wall and in Afghanistan through media or any other source then this Elum will not be consider as Elum e Ghaib.

Quran 72 26
The Knower of the unseen! so He does not reveal His secrets to any,Except to him whom He chooses as a messenger; for surely He makes a guard to march before him and after him,


Quran:3.Al-'Imran: 44
That is from the news of the unseen which We reveal to you, [O Muhammad]. And you were not with them when they cast their pens as to which of them should be responsible for Mary. Nor were you with them when they disputed.


Today I know what happened with ESSA(a.s) how ADAM(a.s) and HAWA(a.s) expelled from janat. What will happen after death.These are all news of unseen and Allah gave me this knowledge of unseen and my source is QURAN.I will never say that I have keys of Unseen because am using source and am knowing through some source

Quran:81.At-Takwir: 24
And Muhammad is not a withholder of [knowledge of] the unseen.

Bukhari :: Book 9 :: Volume 93 :: Hadith 477
Narrated Masruq:

'Aisha(ra) said, "If anyone tells you that Muhammad has seen his Lord, he is a liar, for Allah says: 'No vision can grasp Him.' (6.103) And if anyone tells you that Muhammad has seen the Unseen, he is a liar, for Allah says: "None has the knowledge of the Unseen but Allah."


Quran Anam 59
And with him (Allah (SWT))are the keys of the Ghaib. None knows it but he, and he knows whatever is in land and the sea; not a leaf falls but he knows it, there is not a grain in the darkness of the earth nor anything fresh or dry, but is written in a clear record


Quran 12 102
This is of the announcements relating to the unseen (which) We reveal to you, and you were not with them when they resolved upon their affair, and they were devising plans


In Quran 81 24 ALLAH clearly said that Muhammad(s.a.w) is not the withholder of unseen means He(s.a.w) don't have the knowledge of unseen rather I am giving him some news and some knowledge of unseen He(s.a.w) is getting his knowledge through source through Wahi.

Allah has given him some special limited knowledge which was unseen for Muhammad s.a.w) and whole QURAN was totaly unseen but Allah gave Muhammad(s.a.w) that unseen knowledge . Muhammad(s.a.w) source was different and our source was Muhammad(s.a.w).
Neither we nor Muhammad(s.a.w) got knowledge without any source.Sourceless and unlimited knowledge of unseen is only with Allah and which is real Elum e gaib.

So finaly we can safely say that Nabi(s.a.w) knowledge is much much more than normal human beings but He didnt have the KEYS/KNOWLEDGE OF UNSEEN

Some people in Josh of "Ishq e Rasool" and in reality in hatred of some sect
do GHULU and openly say that Nabi(s.a.w) knowledge was LA-MEHDOOD Limitless and his own which is pure Shirk e Akbar

O People of the Kitaab! Do not commit ghulu' (excess) in your Deen and do not speak about Allah, but the Haqq (truth)

(Surah Nisaa, aayat 171)