The Holy Quran 29:48 — Surah Al-'Ankabut

Arabic text

وَمَا كُنتَ تَتْلُوا۟ مِن قَبْلِهِۦ مِن كِتَـٰبٍ وَلَا تَخُطُّهُۥ بِيَمِينِكَ ۖ إِذًا لَّٱرْتَابَ ٱلْمُبْطِلُونَ

Translation

Before this (Qur'aan), you (O Muhammad ﷺ) were unable to recite any book, neither could you write with your right hand (because you had not learnt to read or write from any person). Otherwise (had you been a person proficient in reading and writing), the people of falsehood (the Kuffaar) would be cast into doubt (they would think that you had written the Qur'aan by yourself).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ being unlettered is a proof of the truthfulness of the Quran: before the revelation of the Quran, forty years of his ﷺ life were spent among these very people of Makkah. Everyone knows that during this period he never sat with any teacher, never read any book and never once took a pen in his hand.

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