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.