Quote Originally Posted by Byzantine Mercenary
when you say inspired, was it directly qouted to him or is it his perseption of what he thought god wanted him to write?
It was directly qouted into to him by the messenger angel - Cebrail (=Gabriel). Such moments were described as "trances". As soon as the "quoting" was finished, he used to convey what he was told to the "katip"s (=writers) so that the holy words were kept unchanged.