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Alhamdulillah, we began by praising Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the one and the unique.

It is he alone that we worship and it is his aid that we seek.

He it is who revealed the Quran to the Prophet ﷺ and he taught Adam how to speak.

He it is who hears the dua of the one who is oppressed and he is the one who answers

the plight of the week.

So may Salat and Salabi upon the one who was chosen to embody the prophetic peak.

As to what follows, we're all aware that the very first revelation that Allah revealed

was Iqra.

In a society and a land where people did not know how to read, Ibn Sa'd in his Tabakat reports

that there were probably 15 people in Makkah that could read and write and Makkah had

a population of roughly 3000.

You do the math that is 0.5% literacy rate of Arabia.

In a land where there was not a single school, in a country or a region that did not have

a library, there was no library in that entire Arabian peninsula.

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala chooses to send down the final book upon the final messenger

and he begins the revelation of that book with a word that we have all memorized Iqra.

And our Prophet ﷺ is terrified and shocked.

He is confused and agitated.

What do you mean Iqra?

Ma'ana Bikaret.

I don't know how to read.

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