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Muhammad Was Not Illiterate
  • Overview
  • Muhammad did not have a physical miracle
  • Muhammad was a merchant
  • Ummy ≠ Illiterate
    • 3:20 (Ummy Defined)
    • 7:157-158 (Gentile Prophet)
    • 62:2 (Messenger to Gentiles)
    • 3:75 (Dealing with Gentiles)
    • 2:78 (Gentiles & Scripture)
    • Conclusion
  • Adversaries acknowledged Muhammad wrote the Quran
  • First Revelation Was to Read
    • Read (Ut’lu, Ratil, & Iqra)
  • The Quran confirms the Arabs were not illiterate
  • By The Right Hand
  • Refutation 29:48 Claim
  • What Shall I Read?
  • The Written Quran
    • Kitab
    • Meaning of Quran
    • Written Pages
    • Quran Compilation
    • Spelling and Literacy
    • Arabic Grammar
    • Written Quran in Hadith
  • Exposing the False Use of ‘Ummiyeen’ in Hadith
  • Were Pre-Islamic Arabs Illiterate?
  • Hadith w/ Prophet Writing
  • Additional Resources
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Adversaries acknowledged Muhammad wrote the Quran

Even the prophet's adversaries among his contemporaries acknowledged that he could read and write. This is stated in the following verse.

[25:5] They also said, “Tales from the past that he wrote down; they were dictated to him day and night.”

(٥) وَقَالُوا أَسَاطِيرُ الْأَوَّلِينَ اكْتَتَبَهَا فَهِيَ تُمْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ بُكْرَةً وَأَصِيلًا

1
waqālū
وَقَالُوٓا۟
And they said,

2

asāṭīru

أَسَـٰطِيرُ

“Tales (of)

3

l-awalīna

ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ

the former [ones] (people) / past generations

4

ik’tatabahā

ٱكْتَتَبَهَا

(which) he wrote it

5

fahiya

فَهِىَ

and [it]

6

tum’lā

تُمْلَىٰ

it is dictated

7

ʿalayhi

عَلَيْهِ

to him

8

buk’ratan

بُكْرَةً

morning / day

9

wa-aṣīlan

وَأَصِيلًا

and evening / night.”

In another verse, we see a similar claim made against the prophet, but this time, it specifies that they speculated a human was teaching him.

[16:103] We are fully aware that they say, “A human being is teaching him!” The tongue of the source they hint at is non-Arabic, and this is a perfect Arabic tongue.

وَلَقَدْ نَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُمْ يَقُولُونَ إِنَّمَا يُعَلِّمُهُۥ بَشَرٌ لِّسَانُ ٱلَّذِى يُلْحِدُونَ إِلَيْهِ أَعْجَمِىٌّ وَهَـٰذَا لِسَانٌ عَرَبِىٌّ مُّبِينٌ

Interestingly, the Quran never refutes the claim that the prophet "wrote"; instead, it only refutes the other claims that the Quran was tales from the past or that it was dictated to him by men.

[53:2] Your friend (Muhammad) was not astray, nor was he deceived. [53:3] Nor was he speaking out of a personal desire. [53:4] It was divine inspiration. [53:5] Dictated by the Most Powerful.

(٢) مَا ضَلَّ صَاحِبُكُمْ وَمَا غَوَىٰ (٣) وَمَا يَنطِقُ عَنِ ٱلْهَوَىٰٓ (٤) إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا وَحْىٌ يُوحَىٰ (٥) عَلَّمَهُۥ شَدِيدُ ٱلْقُوَىٰ

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