Revelation onto us?
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Say "Shall I seek for judge other than Allah. - when He it is Who hath sent unto you the Book, explained in detail." They know full well, to whom We have given the Book, that it hath been sent down from thy Lord in truth. Never be then of those who doubt. (6/114, my addition for easy reference)
That underlined part is in plural.
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3/84 which speaks of 'revelation' (inzaal) as something which is 'alaina' (on us). Further, 6/114 speaks of al-kitaab mufassal (al-quraan itself) as being inzaal 'ilaikum' (to you in plural). Revelation isn't about the first time al-quraan came down to whatever his name was. It's about us achieving pointers from Allah NOW. See 42/51 for evidence of this.
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Note this for instance
035.003 - O men! call to mind the favor of Allah on you; is there any creator besides Allah who gives you sustenance from the heaven and the earth? There is no god but He; whence are you then turned away?
035.004 - And if they call you a liar, truly messengers before you were called liars, and to Allah are all affairs returned.
It seems you can deduce one of two things
a) There are some messengers who were specially from God and everyone else can be a messenger
b) Messenger/rasool is not special at allNow b) just doesn't make too much sense in the quran so...
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People are not rasul in general, but in a sense we are all rasuls to somebody else and anybody can be a rasul for us, even inadvertently. Some truths have been taught to us by people, even without them being conscious they were teaching us something. Life teaches us a lot of things sometimes brutally, some life in itself is a messenger to us. What happens is a message. Some we arrive to read and we are "inspired", some we don't.
My interpretation of khatm annabiyin is that there wouldn't be any special message because to whoever believes the message sent through Muhammad would be able to get any inspiration needed by him or herself or through other people or events. It is in a sense as if the tap of inspiration hd been turned on forever for us as long as we are faithful.
Salaam