Tom Facchine – The Importance Of Understanding The Quran

			We throw parties when they finish khatamul
		

			Quran and these sorts
		

			of things. We teach them tashweed and all
		

			obviously, these things are good,
		

			but this is not how the companions interacted
		

			with the Quran.
		

			Right? The companions interacted with the Quran. They
		

			would not proceed past 10 verses at a
		

			time
		

			until they had understood them
		

			and implemented them in their lives.
		

			Right now, we live in a time where
		

			we emphasize
		

			quantity
		

			over quality,
		

			and one of the things I think that
		

			all of us, especially the parents in the
		

			room and many of us are parents, can
		

			try to encourage our children
		

			to read the Quran for fun, just like
		

			they pick up any other book,
		

			and to read it in a language that's
		

			your native language, a language that you understand,
		

			get to know it. Open from the middle,
		

			from the beginning, from the end.
		

			And one of the best ways that we
		

			can encourage them to do that
		

			is to do it ourselves.
		

			Right? We can't really,
		

			ask our kids to do very much of
		

			something that we're not doing ourselves.
		

			So in that sense, tafsir is something that's
		

			for everybody.
		

			It's different maybe than, like, hadith criticism
		

			or even faq. Everybody needs a certain amount
		

			of faq to worship
		

			and to live.
		

			But when it comes
		

			to your everyday life,
		

			understanding all the things that are going on
		

			in your in your world
		

			and understanding them through a lens of how
		

			Allah
		

			would be happy with,
		

			then that comes back to tafsir.