Zakir Naik – Read the Quran and Learn its Meaning
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It's a fact
today that the glorious Quran
is the most widely read book in the
world today.
It's obviously
recited
by all of these people,
most of these people in Arabic. And unfortunately,
it isn't the language
that they understand
necessarily.
So,
the Koran is recited
without
understanding
in many, many cases.
What would you say or how could we
encourage brothers and sisters to read the Koran
with
meaning
and therefore being able to derive more benefit
from recitation of it. You rightly said that
the Quran
has various benefits, we can keep on listing
them. There are umpteen number of benefits, 100
of them.
The Quran
is the most positive book in the world.
It is a proclamation to humanity.
It is a fountain of mercy and wisdom.
It is a warning to the heedless,
a guide to the erring,
and assurance to those in doubt. It is
a solace to the suffering
and
a hope to those in despair.
How is it possible
to derive
all these benefits
if a person does not read the Quran,
if he does not understand it,
if he does not ponder over the verses,
if he does not implement
the verses of the Quran and does not
put it in practice.
As you rightly said,
the Quran
is the most widely read book in the
world, but unfortunately
it is also the book which is maximum
read without understanding. It
will be a tragic misfortune
if someone comes to the Quran
and goes away empty handed,
soul untouched,
heart unmoved,
life unchanged.
To get the right benefit besides in the
Quran it is compulsory that you should understand
it.
You should ponder over the meaning of the
Quran,
you would implement the guidance which Allah has
given to the human kind and put it
in practice.
We have
2 types of people
amongst Ummah, some people who think that only
reciting the Quran is sufficient,
while others who think that reciting
is not required only the meaning is important.
Allah says in the Quran in Surah Nisa
chapter number 4, verse comm 171.
Do not commit excesses in your religion.
There is benefit also by reciting,
but with understanding you get multiple times more
benefit.
Allah says in the Quran in Suri An
Kabut chapter number 29 verse number 45,
Allah
says recite of what we have revealed by
inspiration.
That means we have to recite the words
of the Quran.
Recite of what we have revealed
by inspiration.
Further it is mentioned
in Surah Baqarah, chapter number 2, verse number
242.
Several times it comes in the Quran, Lallukum
Taqiloon,
do we not understand,
that means it is a book
to be understood.
And
it is important
that we have to understand the book,
while reading besides reading we should understand it.
So we said in the Quran we will
get you many benefits as I mentioned earlier,
Abdulla Wake Prophet said it's a Sahih Hadith
in Tirmedi,
Hadith number 2910
that
every letter you recite over the word of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala of the Quran, you
will get a reward. Each reward you will
get 10 blessings
and Alif Lam Meem is not a letter,
Alif is a letter. Lam is a letter.
Mim is a letter. So if it is
Alif, Lam, Mim you get 10, 10, 10,
30 Sawab. So there is Sawab in reciting.
There is blessing in reciting the Quran. But
as I mentioned earlier, it is not sufficient
only
that you have to recite.
So if you realize that both are important
but understanding and implementing is more important. Let
me give an example,
suppose
you go to France for a graduation,
I do not understand French,
but since you know English you know the
script.
When you attend the college
every day you are marked P
that is present.
When you sit for the examination and do
you understand a word what the teacher is
saying. When you sit for the examination
you get the question paper. Since the script
is the same,
maybe
you can
try and read by transliteration.
Don't understand a word.
There also in the examination you get a
p. P is not for past, it is
for presence.
It is only indicating that you are present
for the examination but that will not pass
you. So therefore if you want to go
to Jannah,
beside deciding the Quran it is important that
you even understand what Allah is telling us,
because Quran is a guidance for the whole
of humanity.
You understand it and you implement
on it. I want to give you one
more example,
suppose there is a friend of yours
since you are living in UK, a friend
of yours comes from Germany,
he is a close friend of yours, he
can speak some broken English,
When he goes back he writes to you
a letter in German, which you do not
understand.
So when a close friend of yours he
writes a letter to you in German
and if you can't understand what will you
do?
But naturally
you will go to a person who knows
German and have it translated
because you want to know
what did your friend mention in the letter.
Is not it important that we should know
what our creator Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has
mentioned in his last and final guidance that
includes Quran.
We do not have to go and translate
the Quran, the translation is already available.
So it is important that besides reading if
you can't understand Arabic we should read the
translation
so that we are able to understand the
message of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and implement
on it.