¦ QUR'AN WITH CONTEMPLATION ¦
Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) summarised what the Muslim has to do in order to remedy the hardness of his heart with the Qur’an.
He said, ‘There is nothing more beneficial for the heart than reading the Qur’an with contemplation and reflection. The Qur’an encompasses all the levels of the travelers, the conditions of the workers, and stations of those possessing knowledge.
It is the Qur’an that generates love, desire, fear, hope, repentance, reliance, pleasure, entrustment, gratitude, patience and the rest of the different states that are life to the heart and perfection of it. Likewise, it repels all the rebuked characteristics and actions that cause the corruption and ruin of the heart. If people were to possess a realization of what the recitation of the Qur’an with contemplation contains, they would devote themselves to it at the expense of everything else. When the person reads it with reflection and he comes across an ayah (verse) that he is in need of for curing his heart, he repeats it, even if he does so a hundred times or the whole night. Hence, to recite a single ayah of the Qur’an with contemplation and reflection is better than reciting the Qur’an to completion without any contemplation. It is also more beneficial for the heart and more conducive to attaining iman (faith) and tasting the sweetness of the Qur’an.’
Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) summarised what the Muslim has to do in order to remedy the hardness of his heart with the Qur’an.
He said, ‘There is nothing more beneficial for the heart than reading the Qur’an with contemplation and reflection. The Qur’an encompasses all the levels of the travelers, the conditions of the workers, and stations of those possessing knowledge.
It is the Qur’an that generates love, desire, fear, hope, repentance, reliance, pleasure, entrustment, gratitude, patience and the rest of the different states that are life to the heart and perfection of it. Likewise, it repels all the rebuked characteristics and actions that cause the corruption and ruin of the heart. If people were to possess a realization of what the recitation of the Qur’an with contemplation contains, they would devote themselves to it at the expense of everything else. When the person reads it with reflection and he comes across an ayah (verse) that he is in need of for curing his heart, he repeats it, even if he does so a hundred times or the whole night. Hence, to recite a single ayah of the Qur’an with contemplation and reflection is better than reciting the Qur’an to completion without any contemplation. It is also more beneficial for the heart and more conducive to attaining iman (faith) and tasting the sweetness of the Qur’an.’
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