01-12-2005, 03:04 PM
<b>Muslimah</b>,
Quote:U ask question, we reply back the way a Muslim believes, the issue of how others who may not be Muslims believe is not our concern.
*Sigh* But I QUOTED Muslims.
First I'm accused of just making stuff up to try to prove a point.
Then, when I bring sources FROM MUSLIMS, the point is simply dismissed as NOT being from a Muslim.
I don't understand what's so hard about just dealing with the issue presented. Where in the Quran does it say that to be considered a Muslim, you have to believe that Muhammad was illiterate? And Muslims always claim that the only way to *truly* understand the Quran in fulness is to know the Arabic. Well these people are going back to the original Arabic itself and yet this is still not good enough for me to be able to get someone to actually discuss the issue.
What does it take?
You all quote from anyone calling themselves Christian and expect me to just accept and believe whatever they may say be it good or bad about the Bible.
Yet you all simply dismiss anything that doesn't fit with what YOUR notion of Islam is.
Is that not a double-standard? Let me answer: It is.
Tell me why the word "ummi" CANNOT mean "without a scripture".
Explain to me how "ummi" would ALWAYS mean illiterate when the Quran uses this word both of Muhammad and of the people to whom he carried his message. If it truly means illiterate and ALL the Arab groups that he preached Islam to were illiterate, then how would the Quran ever have been written down in the first place?