GENTILES

Arabic Ummī ( امى‎ , from umm , “a mother”); pl. ummīyūn , lit . “Ignorant as new-born babes.” Hebrew ‏גּוֹיִם‎ . According to al-Baiẓāwī, all the people of the earth who do not po e a divine Book. In the Qurʾān, the term is specially applied to the idolators of Arabia. Sūrah lxii. 2 : “He (God) it is who sent unto the Gentiles a Prophet, amongst them to recite to them His signs and to purify them, and to teach them the Book, the wisdom, although they were before in obvious error.”