And among them are uneducated who know the Scripture only through hearsay, and they only speculate.
Al-Baqarah 2:78
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وَمِنْهُمْ أُمِّيُّونَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ الْكِتَابَ إِلَّا أَمَانِيَّ وَإِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَظُنُّونَ
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And among them are uneducated who know the Scripture only through hearsay, and they only speculate.
Some of them don't know the Book at all. They only have wishes, and they just guess.
Some of them can't read or write, and they don't know the Scripture — only wishful thinking and assumptions.
Among them are the unlettered who know nothing of the Scripture but wishful thinking, and they do nothing but speculate.
And among them are uneducated who know the Scripture only through hearsay, and they only speculate.
And among them are uneducated who know the Scripture only through hearsay, and they only speculate.
And among them are unlettered ones who do not know the Scripture except [indulgement in] wishful thinking, but they are only assuming.
And there are among them (Jews) unlettered people, who know not the Book, but they trust upon false desires and they but guess.
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 illiterates, who know not the Book, but (see therein their own) desires, and they do nothing but conjecture.
Among them are unlettered folk who know the Scripture not except from hearsay. They but guess.
There are among them unlettered people who have no real knowledge of the Scriptures, knowing only their own wishful thinking and following only conjecture.
Then there are among them some un-lettered people who have no knowledge of the Book but depend upon empty hopes and are guided by mere conjecture and guess-work.
And among them are the illiterate who know nothing of the Book except hearsay, and they only make conjectures.
Waminhum ommiyyoona la yaAAlamoona alkitaba illa amaniyya wain hum illa yathunnoona