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The Holy Qur’an refers to the illiteracy of the
Messenger (Peace be upon) and confirms that it is mentioned in the Torah and
the Gospel. Allah (SWT) says: “Those who follow the
Messenger, the illiterate Prophet, Who they find mentioned in their own
(scriptures) in the Torah and the Gospel.” (VII: 157)
The illiteracy of the Prophet (Peace be upon him) and
how the revelation to him started are still mentioned in the Bible even
nowadays.
In the book of Isaiah (29:12), we read: “And the
book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee:
and he saith, I am not learned.” (King James Version)
In “Good News Bible” we read: “If you give it to
someone who can’t read and ask him to read it to you, he will answer that the
does not know how.”
This text agrees with what happened later to the
Prophet (Peace be upon him). We read in a tradition narrated by ‘Ubaid Ibn
‘Umair and reported by Ibn Ishaq that the Prophet (Peace be upon him) said: “Gabriel came to me with a sheet of silk wherein there was a
book and said, ‘Read!’ I said, ‘I don’t know how.’”
A long time has elapsed since the advent of Jesus
(Peace be upon him); yet no revelation has been endowed upon an unlettered
Prophet other than the illiterate Prophet, Muhammad (Peace be upon him), whose
illiteracy they find mentioned in their scriptures even today.
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