Zakir Naik – A Parable for Reading the Quran without Understanding

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The speaker discusses the importance of reading the Quran in French and English because the language of instruction is French. They explain that an Indian who didn't understand French didn't use the French language and had to attend classes regularly. The speaker emphasizes the importance of reading the Quran in order to pass exams.

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			That there was a person,
		
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			that Indian,
		
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			who goes to France
		
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			to get a bachelor's degree.
		
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			But when he goes to France,
		
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			the language of instruction was French.
		
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			And this Indian, he did not know French.
		
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			So he used
		
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			to attend the classes religiously,
		
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			regularly. Whenever he used to attend, he used
		
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			to get a p.
		
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			P is for present.
		
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			Full year he attends the class. But the
		
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			instruction in French, he doesn't understand it. After
		
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			1 year, he appear for the examination.
		
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			The question paper is in French. But yet
		
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			he gets a p.
		
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			P is not for past, p is for
		
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			present.
		
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			But just by being present,
		
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			do you think he will pass an examination?
		
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			He does not understand a word.
		
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			Maybe
		
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			because he knows English,
		
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			like how many of us we know Urdu
		
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			script,
		
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			so we can recite the Quran. So he
		
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			can read some of the French without understanding.
		
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			Because the script of English and French is
		
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			the same. Do you think he'll pass in
		
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			the examination?
		
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			He gets the p. The p is for
		
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			present. It is not for past. That's the
		
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			reason it's very important
		
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			that we read the Quran with
		
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			understanding.