Editors, em-bypass-2
4,744
edits
Muhammad and illiteracy: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Is reading the only way to get information?
| [unchecked revision] | [unchecked revision] |
Prekladator (talk | contribs) |
Prekladator (talk | contribs) |
||
| Line 16: | Line 16: | ||
}} | }} | ||
We also know that during Muhammad's time there was a man named Waraqa b. Naufal who studied the Bible and he wrote | We also know that during Muhammad's time there was a man named Waraqa b. Naufal who studied the Bible and he wrote books in Arabic and he was close to Muhammad's first wife Khadija. He also became blind so we can expect he continued to teach the Bible verbally, when he could no longer write. | ||
{{Quote|{{Muslim|1|301}}| | {{Quote|{{Muslim|1|301}}| | ||
Khadija then took him to Waraqa b. Naufal b. Asad b. 'Abd al-'Uzza, and he was the son of Khadija's uncle, i. e., the brother of her father. And he was the man who had embraced Christianity in the Days of Ignorance (i. e. before Islam) and he used to write books in Arabic and, therefore, wrote Injil in Arabic as God willed that he should write. | Khadija then took him to Waraqa b. Naufal b. Asad b. 'Abd al-'Uzza, and he was the son of Khadija's uncle, i. e., the brother of her father. And he was the man who had embraced Christianity in the Days of Ignorance (i. e. before Islam) and he used to write books in Arabic and, therefore, wrote Injil in Arabic as God willed that he should write. He was very old and had become blind Khadija said to him: O uncle! listen to the son of your brother. | ||
}} | }} | ||