Principles of the Religion)
The Prophet ﷺ said: "There is no intercessor of higher status with
Allah on the Day of Judgment than the Qur'an—neither a prophet nor a
king nor [any] other."
Know that there are external manners and internal, hidden secrets to
reading the Qur'an.
As for the hidden secrets, they are five:
Firstly: that you sense, at the beginning of your reading, the
greatness of the words by sensing the greatness of the speaker.
You do this by feeling in your heart the presence of The Throne and
His Dominion, the heavens and the earth, and all that is in between
them ofJinn, humans, animals and plants; and that you remember that
the Creator of all of them is One, and that they are all within His
Grasp and Power, experiencing His Favors and Compassion; you feel that
you want to read His words and see through them His Attributes, His
Beauty, His Knowledge and His Wisdom.
Know that just as the Qur'an can only be touched by those who have
purified themselves—while being veiled from the rest—its true meaning
and secrets are also veiled from the hearts if they are vile and
impure.
Secondly: that you contemplate its meanings while reading, if you
[want to be] of the people of the Qur'an. Repeat all that your tongue
has recited unmindfully; don't count mindless reading as part of your
good deeds because the purpose of beautiful recitation is to increase
contemplation. Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "There is no
goodness in an act of worship that is void of understanding, nor in
recitation that lacks contemplation." 1
Thirdly: that you reap the fruits of knowledge from their branches and
seek them from their abodes, as you contemplate; don't seek the
antidote from where you seek the gems, nor the gems from where you see
the musk and [fragrance], for every fruit has its own branch and every
gem its own source.
This is facilitated by knowing the ten categories we have sorted the
Qur'an into.
Of these ten, are the following:
*.That of the Qur'an which relates to Allah (Glory be to Him), His
Attributes and Actions; seek from it the knowledge of greatness and
magnificence.
*.That which relates to guidance to the Straight Path; seek from it
knowledge of mercy, compassion and wisdom.
*.That which relates to the destruction of enemies; seek from it
knowledge of honor and might, conquest and overpowerment.
*.That which relates to the lives of the prophets; seek from it
knowledge of kindness and blessings, favors and generosity.
So, for each category, seek from it that which is most befitting…
Fourthly: that you avoid whatever inhibits your understanding, because
that is the covering that prevents you from understanding. Allah
(glory be to Him) says "…Indeed, We have placed over their hearts
coverings, lest they understand it, and in their ears deafness…"
(Qur'an, 18:54). The God-conscious seeker of truth is tested with one
of two kinds of coverings: either the veils of doubt and denial that
test those who are weak in faith, or the veils of heart-saturating
desires that test the ones engrossed in the life of this world.
As for the worshippers who are solely focused on the Way of Allah,
they [struggle] with two other kinds of veils.
The first is the whispering which diverts the heart from thinking
about one's intention.
How was it at the beginning?
Is it still there now?
Is there still sincerity now?
That is if he were in prayer. Another type of whispering is that which
diverts your focus to correct the pronunciation of the letters, which
leads to doubt and repetition.
This happens in prayer and outside of it [as well].
How can the secrets of the Kingdom be seen by a heart that is focused
[only] on how the lips open and close, and how the tongue and jaws
move, and how air passes through them?
The second kind of veil the worshipper faces is limiting oneself to
the apparent meanings of the Qur'an. This truly inhibits
understanding… [because] the truth that Allah has ordered His servants
to believe in is of degrees; it has both an apparent meaning (like an
outer skin) and a deep internal meaning, which is like the marrow.
For example, [Allah] has ordered His creation to believe that He can
be seen; however, seeing has an external and internal [meaning].
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Submitted by : ( ODUNSI KHODIJAAH )
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