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What are the Central Positive Messages you Learned from the Quran?

Harikrish

Active Member
In the following verses, the word ummi is used for our Prophet.

“"Those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered prophet, whom they find mentioned in their own (Scriptures);― in the Law and the Gospel;― for he commands them what is just and forbids them what is evil … Say: "O men! I am sent unto you all, as the Messenger of Allah, to Whom belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth: there is no god but He: it is He that giveth both life and death. So believe in Allah and His Messenger, the unlettered Prophet, who believed in Allah and His words: follow him that (so) ye may be guided."”(al-Araf, 2/157-158).

In the following verse, it is emphasized that Hazrat Prophet could not read and write and it is pointed out that the attribute ummi used for him has the same meaning: “And thou wast not (able) to recite a Book before this (Book came) nor art thou (able) to transcribe it with thy right hand: in that case, indeed, would the talkers of vanities have doubted.”(al-Ankabut, 29/48).

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