Muhammad Wrote God's Revelations With His own Hand
Muhammad Wrote God's Revelations With His own Hand The first revelation was "Read," and included the statement "God teaches by means of the pen" ( 96:1-4 ), and the second revelation was "The Pen" ( 68:1 ). The only function of the pen is to write. Ignorant Muslim scholars of the first two centuries after the Quran could not understand the Quran's challenge to produce anything like it. They knew that many literary giants could have composed works comparable to the Quran. The ignorant Muslim scholars then decided to proclaim Muhammad an illiterate man! They figured that this would make the Quran's extraordinary literary excellence truly miraculous. The word they relied on to bestow illiteracy upon the Prophet was "UMMY." Unfortunately for those "scholars," this word clearly means "Gentile," or one who does not follow any scripture (Torah, Injeel, or Quran) [see 2:78 , 3:20 , 3:75 , 62:2 ]; it does NOT mean ...