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Muhammad did not receive a Spirit, he was speaking directly with God. The idea of the Spirit is not in Islam, it is a factor of Christianity.
The Revelation of the Qu'ran began with a religious day called the Night of Power, or Laylah-ul Qadr, in Islam. It was on this night that Muhammad was spoken to by God (directly, again, there is no need for a spirit idea):
We have indeed sent down (this Qur'an) in laylah al-qadr;
And what will explain to you what laylah al-qadr is?
Laylah al-qadr is better than a thousand months.
The angels and the spirit descend in it, by God's permission, on every errand. Peace! This until the rise of dawn." (Surah 97)
When the Qur'an says that "We indeed sent this (Qur'an) on the night of power" or that "We sent it down on a blessed night" (or that "the month of Ramadan is one in which the Qur'an was sent down (2:185)) the meaning, of course, is not that the whole of the Qur'an was sent down on one night or in one month. What is meant is that the revelation of the Qur'an began in Ramadan on the night of power.
The huge difference between the Quran and the Bible is that the Quran was revealed DURING the lifetime of Muhammad, and the Bible was written after the death of Jesus, as we agreed on before. That is why this idea of a Holy Trinity is not part of Islam, nor is Jesus accepted as the Son of God. There is no "three in one" God idea, God stands alone and only speaks to Prophets, such as Moses, Abraham and Muhammad.
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