He then said that I now feel I have to ask you, I first didnt belive it but I googled some and find this everywhere.
question one, the prophet, may peice be upon him get married to a girl named Aisha that was 9 years old? *Link Removed*
Hello. I'm sorry I had to remove your link, but it was to an anti-islam website, and so obviously all their answers would be biased and warped to any truths. Google is a good search engine for reasearch, but really not for religion. This is just a pointer, I mean... I'm not going to prevent you from searching on there, but I'd ask you to be careful. It's not always going to be truth they feed you, more often then not it's lies.
Here's an Article, it's a bit long, but it may help you understand better insha'allah:
The Young Marriage of 'Aa'ishah, The Mother of the Believers.
Question 2 that bishop told me, Mohammed was a great writer, he wrote many books. did he? what other books did he write? He spend 21 years to write the Holy Quran? is this true?
No it is not true. Muhammad
was illiterate. He could neither read nor write. the websites you go to may claim otherwise, but it is not true. All given evidence was that he did not write of himself. At that time, the Arabian Peninsula was very ignorant. People took advantage of that sometimes, as said in the Qur'aan,
"Among the People of the Scripture is he who, if entrusted with a Cantar (a great amount of wealth, etc.), will readily pay it back; and among them there is he who, if entrusted with a single silver coin, will not repay it unless you constantly stand demanding, because they say: "There is no blame on us to betray and take the properties of the illiterates (Arabs)." But they tell a lie against Allah while they know it." (3:75)
But the Prophet
encouraged learning, and later employed scribes who penned his various letters to governers and other leaders. The Qur'aan itself was not compiled into a book form during the time of the Prophet
. At that time, the Qur'aan was memorized, and by those who could write, written on peices of bones, leaves, hides ... whatever. But until the time of Abu Bakr as-Sideeq (RA) these were not made into a book either. So therefore, truthfully one cannot even claim the fact that he wrote it.
However, to give another answer from Islamonline:
Was Muhammad Illiterate?
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Dear brother, we appreciate your forwarding this question to us. We hope our efforts, exerted purely for Allah’s sake, come up to your expectations.
First of all, we’d like to state that Almighty Allah chose Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) even though he had grown up as an orphan and was totally illiterate. All good qualities and virtues reached ultimate perfection and were firmly established in him, which no one else can attain except the prophets whom Allah has protected and guided. This combination of perfect qualities is one of the greatest proofs of the truth of his Prophethood (peace and blessings be upon him). He acquired his knowledge direct from Allah. He was not taught by any human being, but he was the "City of Knowledge".
With regard to the question of the illiteracy of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), Sheikh `Atiyyah Saqr, former head of Al-Azhar Fatwa Committee, states:
Almighty Allah says:
(And thou (O Muhammad) wast not a reader of any scripture before it, nor didst thou write it with thy right hand, for then might those have doubted, who follow falsehood.) (Al-`Ankabut 29: 48) He also says:
(Those who follow the messenger, the Prophet who can neither read nor write, whom they will find described in the Torah and the Gospel (which are) with them …) (Al-A`raf 7: 157)
The first verse indicates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was an illiterate, knowing neither how to read or write, before the Glorious Qur’an started to be revealed to him. The second verse indicates that the People of the Book, i.e., the Christians and Jews, knew of the Prophet’s illiteracy in their Divine Books and this is a well-known matter. The wisdom in his illiteracy as shown in the verses is to avoid the disbelievers’ accusing him of having copied or transformed the Qur’an from another human being or excerpted it from the previous books.
However, regarding the period after the revelation of the Qur’an to the Prophet, Muslim scholars held different viewpoints on the issue of the Prophet’s illiteracy. Some scholars are of the opinion that he was no more an illiterate. They based their ruling on the following three evidences:
1. It is reported in Sahih al-Bukhari that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) changed in the document of al-Hudaibiyah Truce the phrase “Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah” into “Muhammad ibn `Abdullah”.
2. He read a paper to `Uyaynah ibn Hisn and conveyed its meaning.
3. He stated that one of the signs of the Anti-Christ (al-Maseeh ad-Dajjal) is that it is written between his eyes the word “a disbeliever”.
The majority of Muslim scholars are of the opinion that he remained illiterate so that no one would be able to refute his mission or that the Qur’an was revealed to him on separate occasions until the end of his lifetime.
They refuted the first evidence saying that the Prophet’s mere writing some words does not erase his illiteracy because of the fact that many illiterates nowadays can write their names nevertheless they are still illiterates.
They refuted the second evidence saying that it is unauthentic.
As for the third evidence, they said that the Prophet’s knowing of some letters does not erase his description as being an illiterate.
**MY ADD> actually it was stated that on the forhead of Dajjal would be the letters Ka Fa Ra which would spell altogether "Kaffir" but that this would be read by a person regardless of whether he was illiterate or not, proving to be a miracle of the last times as well.
Accordingly, the Prophet’s illiteracy is a description that has its cogent wisdom.
Finally, we would like to state that there are many textual proofs indicating that even if the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was an illiterate, the Muslim Ummah are recommended to learn how to read and write and to teach it to others, as learning by starting with reading is one of the strongest keys to gaining knowledge. It is reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ransomed the captives of the great Battle of Badr by having them teach some children of the Ansar (Helpers) reading and writing.
Dr. Rif`at Fawzi, professor of Shari`ah at Cairo University, adds:
Yes, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was an illiterate. This clearly indicates the Divine nature of the Glorious Qur’an that was revealed on Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) who had grown up as an orphan and was illiterate, knowing neither how to read nor write. This Divine Book meets with the previous Divine Books in creeds and stories of Prophets. Almighty Allah challenged all people to try to create a chapter like it, but they could not, and will never be able to do so until the Day of Judgment.
From Islam-qa.com
Allaah chose him even though he had grown up as an orphan and was illiterate, knowing neither how to read or write. All good qualities and virtues were perfected in him, to the point of ultimate perfection. All these good qualities were combined and firmly established in him, something which no one else can attain except the Prophets whom Allaah protected and guided. This combination of perfect qualities is one of the greatest proofs of the truth of his Prophethood (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).
The Qur’aan refers to the signs and proofs surrounding the person of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), which testify to his truthfulness. For example, he was free of sin and trivial spitefulness;
he grew up illiterate in the Arabian Peninsula, and did not receive any religious knowledge from beyond its borders, nor did he spend time acquiring any religious knowledge. When he reached the age of forty, he brought divine knowledge that none of the earlier or later generations could produce. He also received special protection and care from Allaah, which kept him safe at times of crisis; if it were not for this protection he would most certainly have been doomed to destruction. None of this could have happened except to one who was truly sent from Allaah.
In an question response to:
Evidence for the truth of the Prophethood of Muhammad
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the correct opinion is that he
did not know how to read or write.
I hope you are, is or about to have a wonderful day. /Erik
You to. Take care and May you be guided upon the truth.
