سورة البقرة، الآية ٧٨
وَمِنْهُمْ أُمِّيُّونَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ إِلَّآ أَمَانِىَّ وَإِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَظُنُّونَ ٧٨
wamin'hum ummiyyūna lā yaʿlamūna l-kitāba illā amāniyya wa-in hum illā yaẓunnūna
And among them are unlettered ones who do not know the Scripture except [indulgement in] wishful thinking, but they are only assuming.
Verse 78 of Surah Al-Baqarah (2:78), a Medinan surah, is in juz 1, on page 12 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 69 reciters.
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A group of them do not know how to read or write and do not know what is in the Torah or what it says. They have only lies which they heard from some of their leaders, and think it is the Torah revealed by Allah.
And among them, there are illiterate people, who know nothing of the Scripture except wishful thinking, and they do nothing but guesswork.
And there are among them (Jews) unlettered people, who know not the Book, but they trust upon false desires and they but guess.
Among them are unlettered folk who know the Scripture not except from hearsay. They but guess.
And there are among them illiterates, who know not the Book, but (see therein their own) desires, and they do nothing but conjecture.
And there are among them illiterates who know not the Book but only lies, and they do but conjecture.
And among them are illiterates (who) do not know the Book except (only) fancies, and decidedly they do (nothing) except surmise.
هُوَ ٱلَّذِى بَعَثَ فِى ٱلْأُمِّيِّـۧنَ رَسُولًا مِّنْهُمْ يَتْلُوا۟ عَلَيْهِمْ ءَايَٰتِهِۦ وَيُزَكِّيهِمْ وَيُعَلِّمُهُمُ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ وَٱلْحِكْمَةَ وَإِن كَانُوا۟ مِن قَبْلُ لَفِى ضَلَٰلٍ مُّبِينٍ
It is He who has sent among the unlettered [Arabs] a Messenger from themselves reciting to them His verses and purifying them and teaching them the Book [i.e., the Qur’ān] and wisdom [i.e., the sunnah] - although they were before in clear error -
