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HOW DO THE UNWISE INTERPRET THE QUR'AN?

call on anyone you can besides God if you are telling
the truth.' No, the fact is that they have denied
something which their knowledge does not embrace
and the meaning of which has not yet reached them.
In the same way those before them also denied the
truth. See the final fate of the wrongdoers! (Surah
Yunus: 37-39)

Moreover, there is another dimension to this subject. The
Prophet Muhammad was not someone who collected information
and researched either the Torah or the Gospel in his lifetime. The
Prophet's fellow tribesmen closely witnessed the fact that he never
actually read, wrote, worked on or researched any of these books.
No one ever had any doubt concerning this point. Furthermore,
this characteristic of the Prophet that was so well known by the
disbelievers was used in the Qur'an as evidence against them:

You never recited any Book before it nor did you write
one down with your right hand. If you had, the
purveyors of falsehood would have voiced their
doubts… (Surat al-'Ankabut: 48)
The term "Ummi", which refers to a person who has no
knowledge of the previous divine books and is not a member of
these religions, is used in the Qur'an for the Prophet Muhammad to
emphasize his attribute. The verse is:

Those who follow the Messenger, the Ummi, whom
they find written down with them in the Torah and
the Gospel...." (Surat al-A'raf: 157)
The context in which the term "Ummi" is used to refer to those

who are not Christians or Jews can be seen in the verse:
If they argue with you, say, 'I have submitted myself

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