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illiterate

  1. firedragon

    Was the prophet Muhammad able to read and write?

    Argument 1. A lot of people would have been illiterate at the time - Many people at that time would have been illiterate, but does that mean everyone was? So is it fair to make the argument that Muhammed or any single person was illiterate unless otherwise there was significant and clear...
  2. Union

    Prophet Muhammad's illiteracy : A Qur'anic perspective

    The first revelation was "Read" and included the statement "God teaches by means of the pen" (96:1-4), and the second revelation was "The Pen" (68:1). The only function of the pen is to write. Muslim scholars of the first two centuries after the revelation of the Quran could not understand the...
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