Re: Hazrat Muhammad(P.B.U.H) knows how to read & write or not?
Ok some more to go continued from the last explanation
As you can see above the word الأُمِّيَّ, appeared in both verses, regardless of what the verses say let's see how all translators did:
YUSUFALI: translated as the Unlettered
PICKTHAL: translated as who can neither read nor write
SHAKIR: was not translated and was kept as the Ummi
I would say all three are accurate, because the Quran told us clearly that the prophet never wrote nor read a book before, let me show you this then I will come back to continue the above:
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And you did not recite before it any book, nor did you transcribe one with your right hand, for then could those who say untrue things have doubted.**
[The Quran ; 29:48]
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وَمَا كُنتَ تَتْلُو مِن قَبْلِهِ مِن كِتَابٍ وَلَا تَخُطُّهُ بِيَمِينِكَ إِذًا لَّارْتَابَ الْمُبْطِلُونَ (48)
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-> Clearly it says وَمَا كُنتَ تَتْلُو مِن قَبْلِهِ مِن كِتَابٍ, And you did not recite before it any book,, i.e. Mohammad never read a book before, then it says وَلَا تَخُطُّهُ بِيَمِينِكَ, nor did you transcribe one with your right hand, some may still argue and say this means that Mohammad may or may not be literate. I say, what follows next indicates that he was illiterate :** إِذًا لَّارْتَابَ الْمُبْطِلُونَ, **for then could those who say untrue things have doubted., i.e. Mohammad was illiterate before the revelation of the Quran and during the period of the Quran revelation because if he was literate, the people at his time would have doubted him. Also he might learnt how to write later on after the revelation but I never heard of it.
We can safely say that Mohammad DID'T READ NOR WRITE at least up to the Quran revelation and including the whole period of the Quran revelation, i.e. the word Ummi applies to him, remember that it applies to the following:
1) Those who don't read nor write (Mohammad belongs to this group)
2) Those who read but don't write
And that is why I said all 3 translators are accurate because if you don't know how to read nor write as we were told that Mohammad was alike, then you are any of the followings and according to each translator:
YUSUFALI: the Unlettered
PICKTHAL: who can neither read nor write
SHAKIR: the Ummi under the Arabic language of course, because Shakir did not translate it at all, I guess he was not sure what it means.
My important note here, the submitters cult deceive others by severely manipulating 29:48 and lie saying, Mohammad knew how to write, obviously this means that Mohammad also knew how to read, they also lie and say that he even wrote the Quran with his own hands before he died, this is an obvious clear cut lie that they only cooked to serve their low desires, Allah clearly told us that Mohammad did not know how to read nor write, the submitters on the other hand say but 29:48 stated that HE DIDN'T WRITE PREVIOUS SCRIPTURES BEFORE, total non sense because if the BOOK was mentioned without the Al, i.e. THE then it is called Nakirah, i.e. UNKNOWN. i.e. ANY BOOK that you can think of, here it is again: مِن كِتَابٍ, Min Kitab, NOT Min AL Kitab, therefore Allah clearly means Mohammad never wrote or read any book before. (any book you can think of including scriptures - UNKNOWN)