Re: A question about the Prophet Muhammad being unlettered ?
I have written a book (in my language and over 80,000 words) and have edited it many times using all kind of software tools in computer. After it get published, later on, I still find discrepancy between one statement to the other. For sure, I did not put any disclaimer it would be error-free.
You may try,
1. learn a new language you know nothing about...learn how to speak it but not to write it....and try to compose a book using your new language around 77,450 words without any help from pen, paper, computer...any writing devices. You may ask your newly friends,neighbors etc to write it for you in bones, leather, paper etc...which is useless to you since you can not read it anyway.
Put statements and use this guidance in your book:
1. you do not know how to write....you can not lie since your neighbors, friends who know you over 20 years will know if you know how to write.
2. compose it in non-linear sequences...start with chapter 96,68, 73, 1 etc... pieces by pieces, after 23 years it has to fit together after you put it in sequences. All in your mind only, no help from computer, paper etc....
3. You make a guarantee it has no discrepancy and intended to the whole mankind till the end of the world... that means... PhD, professors from all kind of disciplines will check your book to ensure it is error-free like you claim to be.
4. Make a challenge that no human till the end of the world can imitate your work as small as three lines/sentences.
5. put new information that nobody knows about at the moment...in case of Al-Qur'an (city of Ihram,the lowest place on earth, universe expanding etc)
6. if you put tartil...your 77,450 words become a beauty to the ears.
7. it stand its challenge for at least 1400 years.
etc..
etc..
if the above list is an impossible job to do for you, or for me...then it would be impossible also to the prophet of Muhammad S.A.W... unless, it is a micracle given to him by Allah.
I have heard from Muslims that the Prophet Muhammad being unlettered means that the Holy Quran is a miracle from God something about the Arabic text can anyone explain the reasons as to why this alone makes Quran a miracle ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran_and_miracles
I have written a book (in my language and over 80,000 words) and have edited it many times using all kind of software tools in computer. After it get published, later on, I still find discrepancy between one statement to the other. For sure, I did not put any disclaimer it would be error-free.
You may try,
1. learn a new language you know nothing about...learn how to speak it but not to write it....and try to compose a book using your new language around 77,450 words without any help from pen, paper, computer...any writing devices. You may ask your newly friends,neighbors etc to write it for you in bones, leather, paper etc...which is useless to you since you can not read it anyway.
Put statements and use this guidance in your book:
1. you do not know how to write....you can not lie since your neighbors, friends who know you over 20 years will know if you know how to write.
2. compose it in non-linear sequences...start with chapter 96,68, 73, 1 etc... pieces by pieces, after 23 years it has to fit together after you put it in sequences. All in your mind only, no help from computer, paper etc....
3. You make a guarantee it has no discrepancy and intended to the whole mankind till the end of the world... that means... PhD, professors from all kind of disciplines will check your book to ensure it is error-free like you claim to be.
4. Make a challenge that no human till the end of the world can imitate your work as small as three lines/sentences.
5. put new information that nobody knows about at the moment...in case of Al-Qur'an (city of Ihram,the lowest place on earth, universe expanding etc)
6. if you put tartil...your 77,450 words become a beauty to the ears.
7. it stand its challenge for at least 1400 years.
etc..
etc..
if the above list is an impossible job to do for you, or for me...then it would be impossible also to the prophet of Muhammad S.A.W... unless, it is a micracle given to him by Allah.