Read the Quran and Learn its Meaning

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

on it.

on it.