Could the Prophet read? | Mufti Abu Layth

one curve first question or the question by henna I've answered this before on several occasions that the prophet salallahu alaihe salam could he read and write now in my understanding I feel that the Prophet could read and write but not it wasn't a common thing it wasn't something that they did that people generally were doing so much if we look at the historical records it appears that the Arabs of North Arabia of of the Hejaz seemed to be moving away

from the script of the South Arabian kingdoms like him er in the lifetime of the Prophet they seemed to be moving towards the northern Arabs Middle East and Arabs the Nabataean kingdoms this this script so which is influenced by here are and Lamine and the Mehnaz era and those people so you see some of them some of the people from Makkah Bishop Nidal Malik and others who traveled to here I'll come back and teach people this new script Gorgias 'm which is the Arabic that we write in today so this Arabic today is not actually the Arabic of the ancient Arabs the Arabic of the

ancient Arabs was him URI or couple misled and that was it looked a bit like hieroglyphics kind of odd shapes and triangles and all this kind of stuff so and it's found in archaeological findings so from way before Islam you find it especially in southern Arabia so the transition from huttle muslin to happen jism all Hemery to the the kind of um bob the Nabataean script is something that's happening in the lifetime of the prophet and the prophet salallahu alaihe salam in my understanding pushes also always part of

that transition as in he agrees with it he seems to agree with it in my understanding in making that and I think they may have been something in the background about identitarian kind of shift taking place as well sociologically so the seems to because the kingdoms up north it seems that the hey Jersey Arabs wanted to now more identify with the northern kingdoms of the lemon and the Hassan Hassan Eid and left mid dynasties which were protectorates of the Persian and Byzantine empires as

opposed to the South Arabian the kind of Aksumite kingdoms of the ancient Arabs of Hemi are and these kind of people this seems to be an identity shift taking place and so could the Prophet read and write I believe he could because many of the my Lakia the great those who adhere to the school of Medina like Abuelita bhaji the great Muslim legend Maliki scholar from Spain he was of this position and he wrote a book which is in print today called tacky old myth hub Fianna be about

ketchup that the Turkic that the the kind of precision of the method or the way is that the Prophet could write that was his book it is available today online and in some of the bookstores now he argues in this book that the Prophet could write and he uses evidences for it from places like the Salah had a beer that and then he pointed ace because a lot of Sunnis or a lot of this is not a Sunni non Sunni issue by the way but people today unfortunately try and make it like that but the people like I

believe the bhaji was Sunni scholars they were not from any other group they were Sunni Maliki scholars so but a lot of Hamas said oh he here was referring to I leave of the Ilan but most likely was referring to the Prophet I think so as well that he points out and kind of erases the word now also he uses bargee uses the evidence of the hadith that the Prophet say says in a vision he says oh I saw the gates of hell and the gates of heaven and on the gate such-and-such was written and he says for the profit to tell you

what was written he says in the dream that I saw that this was written on this so it meant he could read and he uses these kind of evidences and called the yealt seems very sympathetic to his position in 30 below metallic so if you read 30 below metallic other yachts seems to kind of support what bajji is saying and he says that people misunderstood bajji so right now right I'm not sure what's going on Hisham Wadi

Hisham what are you saying people be warned this guy is a miss leader well you tried to warn me sham but you know what kind of way you fell short was I suppose the surname it's the same thing were these what I think is excreted after urine according to some people and it breaks the rule so that's what kind of see people are struggling to take to take you seriously with that with that surname so you got to kind of change it

nevertheless salt so I do agree my personal understanding is that the Prophet could write but it wasn't somebody that generally wrote a lot a lot of the Arabs didn't they had an oral tradition there were people on oral tradition so that's that question the