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Why Do You Read Quran?

To attain a faithful relation with the Quran, you need to read it with no purpose other than to

1. Receive guidance from your Lord,

2. to come nearer to Him

3. And to seek His good pleasure.

What you get from the Quran depends on what you come to it for, Your niyyah is crucial.

1. ● Certainly the Quran has come to guide you, but you may also go astray by reading it should you approach it for impure purposes and wrong motives.

{Thereby He causes many to go astray, and thereby He guides many; but thereby He causes none to go astray save the iniquitous} (Al-Baqarah 2:26)

1. ● Do not read it merely for intellectual pursuit

Even though you must apply your intellect to the full to the task of understanding the Quran.

So many people spend a lifetime in studying the language, style, history, geography, law and ethics of the Quran, and yet their lives remain untouched by its message.

The Quran frequently refers to people who have knowledge but do not derive benefit from it.

1. ● Nor should you come to the Quran with the fixed intention of finding support for your own views, notions and doctrines.

For if you do, you may, then, hear an echo of your own voice in it, and not that of God.

👉 It is this approach to the understanding and interpreting of the Quran that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) has condemned:

“Whoever interprets the Quran by his personal opinion shall take his place in the Fire” (At-Tirmidhi).

1. ● Nothing could be more unfortunate than to use the Quran to secure, for your own person, worldly things such as name, esteem, status, fame or money.

You may get them, but you will surely be bartering away a priceless treasure for nothing, indeed even incurring eternal loss and ruin.

Indeed, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said that one who learns, recites and teaches the Quran for worldly acclaim will be thrown into the Fire (Muslim).

1. ● You may also derive other lesser benefits, from the words of the Quran, such as the healing of bodily afflictions, psychological peace, and deliverance from poverty.

There is no bar to having these, but, again, they should not become the be all and end all that you seek from the Quran

For in achieving these you may lose a whole ocean that could have been yours.

1. ● Reading every single letter of the Quran carries with it great rewards.

Remain conscious of all the rewards, and make them an objective of your niyyah, for they will provide you with those strong incentives required to spend your life with the Quran.

1. ● 👉 But never forget that on understanding, absorbing and following the Quran you have been promised much larger rewards, in this-world and in the Hereafter.

It is these which you must aim for.

Purpose and intentions are like the soul of a body, the inner capability of a seed.

Many seeds look alike, but as they begin to grow and bear fruits, their differences become manifest.

The purer and higher the motive, the greater the value and yield of your efforts are.

● So always ask yourself: Why am I reading the Quran?

● Tell yourself constantly why you should.