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==Muhammad, the Islamic role model== | |||
Muslims believe the Muhammad is their role model and at the same time they believe that he didn't learn how to read. | |||
Muhammad said the the ummah (the Islamic community) is illiterate and it's not important to use astronomical calculations to determine beginning of a month and it should be rather determined primitively by sight <ref>https://islamqa.info/en/4713</ref>: | |||
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Ibn 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with both of them) reported Allah's Apostle as saying: | |||
We are an unlettered people who can neither write nor count. The month is thus, and thus. folding his thumb when he said it the third time. | |||
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It is estimated that around 40% of the Muslim population today is illiterate <ref>http://www.iinanews.com/page/public/report.aspx?id=10377#.WsC4q6iWaUk</ref>. The word ''ummah'' (أمة) itself is derived from the same root as ''ummi'' (أمي). | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||