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In the Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the
Most Merciful
Recitation of The Holy Qur'aan
Whoever recites the Holy Qur'aan and does not humble himself before Allah,
whose heart is not softened, nor regret and fear provoked within him,
undervalues the immensity of Allah's affairs and is in a clear state of
loss.
The person who recites the Holy Qur'aan needs three things: a fearful heart,
a tranquil and receptive body, and an appropriate place to recite. When his
heart fears Allah, then the accursed Satan flees from him. As Allah
said:
When you recite the Quran, seek refuge with Allah from the
accursed shaytan. (16:98)
When he frees himself from all attachments, then his heart is devoted to
recitation, and nothing impedes him from obtaining the blessing of the light of
the Holy Qur'aan and its benefits. When he finds an empty place and withdraws
from people, having acquired the two qualities of the humility of heart and
tranquility of body, then his soul and his innermost being will feel communion
with Allah, and he will discover the sweetness of how Allah speaks to His right
acting bondsmen, how He shows His gentleness to them and singles them out for
all the varieties, of His marks of honour and wonderous signs. If he drinks a
cup of this drink, he will never prefer any other state to this nor any other
moment to this. He will prefer this to every act of obedience and devotion,
since it contains intimate conversation with the Lord, without any
intermediary.
So beware of how you read the Book of your Lord, the guardian to whom you
inspire, how you respond to His commands and avoid His prohibitions, and how you
observe His limits, for it is a mighty book:
Falsehood shall not come
to it from before it nor from behind it, a revelation from the Wise, the Praised
One. (41:42)
Therefore recite it in an orderly manner and contemplatively and adhere to
the limits of His promise and His threat. Reflect on its examples and warnings.
Beware of paying undue respect to the recitation of its letters while failing to
observe the legal limits contained therein.
Ref: The Lantern of the Path, Imam Jafer as Sadiq (AS)
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