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To All Brothers of Islam
Brothers please In the Name of God just stay calm and consider these points:
1- Prophets are the Man who usually are the Most Knowledgeable, Most Educated, Most Civilized Persons among the society.. You will Never found any Prophet who have something less comparing to others! I do believe that if anyone even men of 1400 years before would ask Prophet about Computers, Robots and other technology then *Prophet should have to answer them as Prophet is representing Allah's Knowledge.... *
2- Reading and Writing since the earlier days are known as Noble acts and the persons who knows acquire more respect then who dont know... So was there any person who is more respectable in any term then the Prophet...
3- Prophet (PBUH) was brought in the house of Hazrat Abu Talib and Sons of Hazrat Abu Talib i.e Aqeel, Jafar, Ali knew how to read and write then how it is possible that Prophet who were passing life in the same house wont know (dont misjudge it that He (PBUH) got any sort of schooling, No one can educate Prophet in any sense)
4- And Brother PSYAH wroted that education was Oral... So dear if it was Oral then Why Prophet asked people to Write Quran and Ahadees and there were so many SO Called Katiban e Wahi......The term Katiban e Wahi reveals that the education were not Oral.....**
Peace bro NetDevil
You state above that prophets are usually most educated where did you get this from? Then in the same breath you mention that prophet's have Allah's knowledge so as to answer questions regarding computers and modern technology. So according to your own understanding Allah's knowledge is superior to the education that was available at the time of the prophet Muhammad (SAW). Therefore, if he (SAW) did have Allah's knowledge (i.e. inspiration that Allah (SWT) gave him (SAW)) then there is no need for education because he already has more from the knowledge he has been given from Allah (SWT).
Reading and Writing are noble acts ... Muslims have managed to preserve the hair and shoes and prayer mat of Muhammad (SAW) ... what have we preserved of his writings if you are truthful?
For your point number 3 you are appealing to reason then you throw that reason out of the window. You say that he lived amongst people who could read and write and were educated then you claim no one can educate him, so why make such a bold statement? If no one can educate him (SAW) then why go to the effort to say he live with so and so. And where has it been mentioned that people even tried to educate him for it to be deemed that he 'was not educatable'? Also you assume that he was always aware of and has innate knowledge. May Allah (SWT) protect him from any slander but he (SAW) was mistaken regarding the account of Aisha (RA) in the battlefield. And there were many times when he did not know how to respond to matters in which case ayah were revealed in-situ to help him out and he used to get advice for things from others such as the building of trenches by Salman Al-Farsi (RA).
The question that you have asked me directly 'why the prophet Muhammad (SAW) asked his companions to write down' the answer is clear so they would not forget. It does not mean that the ayahs were written down for him to read, rather he already knew them off by heart, when they wrote down the verses they could read them easily without remembering them, but some people could memorise very quickly. But memory is dangerous even a memorised thing can be forgotten. They used to read it out and he used to confirm whether it was correct or not. Katiban e wahi just means writers of the revelation. It does not infer that Muhammad (SAW) knew how to read. However, if Allah (SWT) wanted him to know that somebody wrote in error or purposeful mistake then Muhammad (SAW) would be guided to that knowledge without having to read the verse himself. It has to be the case in order to preseve the message and evidence of his miracle the Qur'an.
Please read the first verses in which Allah says "We taught Man with Pen" so from these verses it is quite clear that the bases of Knowledge and Learning is with Pen means writing....
Furthermore i wroted what you say about it
*3- Prophet (PBUH) was brought in the house of Hazrat Abu Talib and Sons of Hazrat Abu Talib i.e Aqeel, Jafar, Ali knew how to read and write then how it is possible that Prophet who were passing life in the same house wont know (dont misjudge it that He (PBUH) got any sort of schooling, No one can educate Prophet in any sense) *
'Allama bil kalm ... Allamal insana malam ya'lam
As I said earlier ... there are two types of teaching ... One is by pen that Allah (SWT) enables man to teach man by ... education is under this category. Read the verse directly after this one ... And taught man what he knew not. So there is another basis ... that basis is revelation or inspiration. That by man reflecting all of sudden realises such and such, is another type of teaching of Allah (SWT).
Allah (SWT) teaches by pen - yes
Allah (SWT) teaches by inspiration - yes
Two methods - two bases.
Prophetic teaching is by the second one only. As far as Muhammad (SAW) is concerned any way that is true.
It is important to preserve this understanding for Ahl-e-kitab because in their own scriptures they were looking for the one in whose mouth Allah put His words. Read Deuteronomy 18:18 ... I (God) will put my words in his mouth ... This is how the Qur'an came to him. It is a lie to say that he (SAW) read the words like we read the words on paper. And the reply that Muhammad (SAW) gave when Jibreel (AS) embraced him ... he said ... I do not know how to read ... why would Muhammad (SAW) make such a statement? Please answer all my points not just isolated ones from my post.