The First Miracle
The illiterate who taught the whole world
God Praise and glory be to Him chose his prophet to be illiterate and the meaning of the word illiterate i.e. ignorant: that is as his mother gave birth to him, i.e. he did not receive any education from any human being and this illiteracy was an honour for the messenger of God PBUH, Why?
Because God Praise and glory be to Him is one who chose and selected him to be the Seal (last) of the prophets as he wanted to teach him (the prophet) Himself, Praise and glory be to God.
If the messenger of Allah read or wrote, they would have said: he was educated by the books of the ancestors (forefathers) or from the civilizations of other nations. Thus, God, Praise and glory be to Him, chose him to grow up as ignorant so that every one knows that the knowledge of Allah's apostle came from God, Praise be to Him. Despite both this choice and wisdom, the minds of infidels neglected it and they claimed that the messenger of Allah was educated by a human being. As God stated this in the AlNahl Surat- verse: 103:
قال تعالى :
وَلَقَدْ نَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُمْ يَقُولُونَ إِنَّمَا يُعَلِّمُهُ بَشَرٌ لِّسَانُ الَّذِي يُلْحِدُونَ إِلَيْهِ أَعْجَمِيٌّ وَهَـذَا لِسَانٌ عَرَبِيٌّ مُّبِينٌ
[النحل103]
"And certainly we know that they say: Only a mortal teaches him. The tongue of him whom they reproach is barbarous, and this is clear"
They claimed that this knowledge belonged to the legends (tales) of the ancestors(ancients). As God said in Al-Anaam Surat- Verse 25:
قال تعالى :
وَمِنْهُم مَّن يَسْتَمِعُ إِلَيْكَ وَجَعَلْنَا عَلَى قُلُوبِهِمْ أَكِنَّةً أَن يَفْقَهُوهُ وَفِي آذَانِهِمْ وَقْرًا وَإِن يَرَوْاْ كُلَّ آيَةٍ لاَّ يُؤْمِنُواْ بِهَا حَتَّى إِذَا جَآؤُوكَ يُجَادِلُونَكَ يَقُولُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ إِنْ هَذَآ إِلاَّ أَسَاطِيرُ الأَوَّلِينَ
[الأنعام25]
“Of them there are some who (pretend to) listen to thee; but We have thrown veils on their hearts, So they understand it not, and deafness in their ears; if they saw every one of the signs, not they will believe in them; in so much that when they come to thee, they (but) dispute with thee; the Unbelievers say: "These are nothing but tales of the ancients."
However, the tales of the ancients are the ones stated in the Bible when it marveled us with its fallacies, so it stated the following:
Slaughtering virgins as sacrifices (Judg Book 11:30), growing salt (Judg 9:49), the sun hurries to rise (Ecclesiastes 5 :1), looking up at the sun eye is useful (Ecclesiastes11:7) and the fog waters the ground (Genesis 3 :4)Manassas cows killing 600 at once (Judg 3 :31)and snakes speak (Genesis 3:4) and the dead rotten flies for production of perfumes(Ecclesiastes 1:10), the bees producing honey in the corpse (Judg 14 :5), a thousand dying of one hit of a donkey beard (Judg 15 :16), a donkey undoing a water spring (Judg 15 :18) fortune tellers revive the dead ( Samuel 1 Book 16,13,28) the bow shakes and kills 800 person (Samuel II Book 23:8)… etc.
We turn again to the miracle of the beloved chosen prophet PBUH.
God replied to whoever lied and claimed that the prophet was not illiterate or was taught by others as He To whom belong glory and Majesty said in AL-Ankbout surat- verse 48:
قال تعالى :
وَمَا كُنتَ تَتْلُو مِن قَبْلِهِ مِن كِتَابٍ وَلَا تَخُطُّهُ بِيَمِينِكَ إِذًا لَّارْتَابَ الْمُبْطِلُونَ
[العنكبوت48]
“And thou wast not (able) to recite a Book before this (Book came), nor art thou (able) to transcribe it with thy right hand: In that case, indeed, would the talkers of vanities have doubted.”
Then , God, praise and Glory be to Him, is drawing the attention of the whole mankind that he chose his messenger to be ignorant in order to refute what the fallacy advocates and enemies of faith claim that the messenger of Allah has brought Quran from his own resources. Therefore, God Praise and glory be to Him said to his beloved: if you were to know reading and writing before prophecy comes to you, then this would be an evidence of the advocates of falsehood and those whose God's wrath is brought upon them and those who went astray to say that : this Quran comes from you, but you do not read nor write and you haven't read a word in your life before the message (prophecy) nor did you write a single word.
Thus, their evidence is mere falsehood which had no truth. Rather, it is a mere stubbornness and obstinacy as a pret ext for disbelief and an infidelity and their pret ext is returned to them.
God said in Younis Chapter - verse 16
قال تعالى :
قُل لَّوْ شَاء اللّهُ مَا تَلَوْتُهُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَلاَ أَدْرَاكُم بِهِ فَقَدْ لَبِثْتُ فِيكُمْ عُمُرًا مِّن قَبْلِهِ أَفَلاَ تَعْقِلُونَ
[يونس16]
“Say: If Allah had so willed, I should not have rehearsed it to you, nor would He have made it known to you. A whole life-time before this have I tarried amongst you: will ye not then understand?"
Therefore, ignorance was considered an honor for the messenger of Allah PBUH and a necessity in order to reply to the claims of falsehood as an assurance for believers as all that came by the messenger of Allah; rather, it was a revelation brought from the creator of the earth and the sky.
Here we are after the elapse of 1400 years; the prophet still represents terror for all other religions. There is no getaway but by insulting, ridiculing or mocking him while he did cease to exist and passed away. Have we ever found such an attack at a deceased figure as the case with the prophet PBUH?
Thus, this attack is the greatest definite undoubted evidence that he is the messenger of Allah PBUH
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