When are we to understand?

Muhammad Tauseef A. Bajwa

Senator (1k+ posts)
Turn on your computer and a signal flashes on your screen: You have 1 message waiting. Is it your friend? Has that online order been shipped? You cant wait to find out. Or is that annoying mailing list that sends out a verse-a-day that many delete without looking twice? There is an unread message waiting for us. It is Al-Quran Al-Kareem, the Noble Recitation. And its author is our Creator!
Let us randomly ask Muslim communities around the world the following question: Why did Allah reveal the Quran? Many a community will respond without hesitation, The Quran was revealed to bless us. But is that the correct response? The Quran is blessed and blessed is he who recites it. However, listen carefully to the following verse:
(This is) a Book (the Quran) which We have sent down to you, full of blessings that they may ponder over its Verses, and that men of understanding may remember. (Quran, 38:29)
Blessing is a characteristic of the Quran, not the purpose of revelation. The purpose of revelation is so that its verses will be contemplated and acted upon!
The misconception that the place of Quran in our lives is one of barakah alone has many manifestations.. We find many Muslim families bent on the desire to have their children read the Quran in Arabic just once in their lifetime. We find communities that print copies of the Quran in 30 separate parts so that they can recite it only when someone dies.
No, weve misunderstood the role of the Quran in our lives and the message is still waiting to be read.. Do you know which language the Quran would have been revealed if the majority of speakers were the primary consideration? It would have been in Mandarin Chinese. But the Quranic language is not open to the whims of humans. Allah chose a pure and blessed language Arabic. It is we who must strive to understand it.
A Book whereof the Verses are explained in detail; a Quran in Arabic for people who know. (Quran, 41:3)
The Quran is truth in its purest form. Falsehood cannot touch it.
Falsehood cannot come to it from before it or behind it (it is) sent down by the All-Wise, Worthy of all praise (Allah). (Quran, 41:42)
The Quran is the straight path which we ask for in Surah Fatihah everyday in our Salah. The Quran is the rope of Allah that we are ordered to hold fast to. The Quran is the best speech.
Allah has sent down the best statement, a Book (this Quran), its parts resembling each other in goodness and truth, oft-repeated. The skins of those who fear their Lord shiver from it (when they recite it or hear it). Then their skin and their heart soften to the remembrance of Allah. That is the guidance of Allah. He Guides therewith whom He pleases and whomever Allah sends astray, for him there is no guide. (Quran, 39:23)
What has happened to us that we do not want to hear Allahs message with passion? During Ramadan, we have good Imams who lead the Taraweeh prayers. They recite the Quran and make dua during Witr. Tears overtake the words they recite. One of the brothers once came up to me with his eyes misty, and a sheet of paper and pen in his hands. He said, Muhammad, I want you to translate for me everything the Imam is saying in his dua.
Caught off guard, I shrugged and said, You want me to translate the whole thing here in the hallway?
He replied, Yes, because were Muslim too. If it makes the Imam cry, it would make us cry too ... if we only knew what it meant! As he spoke, tears overtook him. The words locked in my mind, If only we knew what it meant. Allah says:
And the Messenger will say: O my Lord! Verily, my people deserted this Quran. (Quran, 25:30)
How is the Quran abandoned?
1. The Quran is abandoned in our lives when we prefer listening and watching 135 satellite channels. But if it were to accidentally play, we would not listen to it or perhaps rush to shut it off.
2. The Quran is abandoned when a person does not care to learn Allahs message in the Quran.
3. The Quran is abandoned when we leave its laws and instead turn to the laws of the disbelievers to dictate justice to us.
A hard heart
We often hear a statement: My heart is hard as a rock. I do not feel any spirituality. We hear this over and over again in our communities. Allah says in the Quran:
Has not the time come for the hearts of those who believe to be affected by Allahs Reminder (this Quran), and that which has been revealed of the truth, lest they become as those who received the Scripture, and the term was prolonged for them and so their hearts were hardened? And many of them were disobedient. (Quran, 57:16)
Notice that it is an admonishment from Allah that our hearts are not humbling to the Quran. Allah is telling us that it is our fault when we do not feel that spirituality. How much time has passed since we last contemplated the Quran? How many years? When are we to understand?
If any of us are planning to watch TV all summer long, let me tell you TV guides best bet: Its called the OFF button. Our time is too valuable for that.
How can we waste our time when we know for a fact that when we get up to pray our Salah, the majority of the Muslim congregation will not know what the verses recited mean?
With all our wealth, conveniences, and intelligence, we have no excuse but to excel in our drive to learn Islam, and learn it properly.
Excerpt from a Khutbah
Muhammad Alshareef - is director of Al-Maghrib Institute, Canada
 

Gorgh

Citizen
The Quran is not abandont as a result advancement in electronic gidgets/sattlite channels or any other dibelievers laws. Infacts is mis interpreted by those who try to use the Quran as a tool for their preaching of branded sect, laying more amphasis on "saying of Sahaba" particularly selected sahabas as you hear & see every day and their own printed books to lure people towards their own interests instead of the actual Quran as a result, The Prophet Muhammad(PBUH) & the Quran has been defamed by the west & dis-believers in a sophisticated manner through their media that even moderate muslims particularly some educated muslims left it as a show piece on their balcony/showcase.
The Muslims now refrain/fear confess reading/reciting Quran, not to be called/labelled terrorists. They (Self centred)have even devised a particular style/ way of memorizing / reciting the Quran, which certainly gives a strange feelings while watching them that they are really a hardliner & extremists or will become a hardliners.
It is my personal observation in this regard.
 

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