and here's something I got from a facebook message:
Assallamu alaikum to all.
I just wanted to share a beautiful excerpt from a book called; "The Way to the Quran", by Ustadh Khurram Murad. Its an small book, with really useful and benefical advice in relation to the Quran.
As the month of the "Quran" is coming. I hope we are all trying our best to get prepared for Ramadan. The best thing would be to --try and bring more of the Quran (reading, studying, fixing ones tajweed, tafsir, etc) into ones life, from NOW before Ramadan starts and continuing it within the blessed month.
In the same light, I wanted to share this excerpt, to give us a boost to our greatest gift, of having this Quran. Enjoy. (There is a link at the bottom, where you can read the whole book for free!)
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Bringing Gratitude and Praise
Third: Make yourself constantly alert with intense praise and gratitude to your Lord for having blessed you with His greatest gift the Qur'an and for having guided you to its reading and study.
Once you realize what a priceless treasure you hold in your hands, it is but natural for your heart to beat with joy and murmur, and for your tongue to join in: 'Thankful praise be to Allah, who has guided us to this; [otherwise] never could we have found guidance had not Allah not guided us' (al-A'raf 7: 43).
Of all the intimate blessings and favours He has bestowed upon you nothing can match the Qur'an. If every hair on your body becomes a tongue praising and thanking Him, if every drop of blood in your body turns into a joyful tear, even then your praise and thanks will not match His enormous generosity that is the Qur'an.
Even if the Qur'an had not been sent down for us, its perfection and beauty, its majesty and splendour would deserve all the praise at our command. But that this sublime and perfect gift, having the unique distinction of embodying our Lord's speech, has been given solely for our sake must intensify our praise beyond bounds.
Such intense praise inevitably turns into intense gratitude. And no word expresses this intense praise combined with overflowing gratitude and thanks as well as does al-hamd.
alhamdu li 'llahi 'I-ladhi hadana li hadha ...
Why thank Allah for having given us the Qur'an? Principally because He has, thus, guided you to meaning and purpose in life and brought you on the Straight Path. The way to honour and dignity in this-world has been opened for you. In the Qur'an, you can converse with Allah. Only by following the Qur'an in this-world can you attain forgiveness, Paradise and Allah's good pleasure in that-world.
Gratitude and joy lead to trust, hope and greater gifts. The One who has given you the Qur'an will surely help you in reading, understanding and following it. Thankfulness and joy generate an ever-fresh vigour which helps you to read the Qur'an always with a renewed zeal. The more you are grateful, the more Allah gives you of the riches that the Qur'an has to offer. Generosity evokes gratitude, gratitude makes you deserve more generosity an unending cycle. Such is God's promise: 'If you are grateful, I will surely give you more and more' (Ibrahim 14: 7).
Having the Qur'an and not feeling immensely grateful for it can only mean two things: either you are ignorant of the blessings that the Qur'an contains, or you do not attach any importance to them. In either case you should be seriously worried about the state of your relationship with the Qur'an. The sentiment of gratitude that permeates every pore of your heart and mind, must also pour out in your words, which should be profuse and incessant. Thank Allah at every step of your journey: for having had time for the Qur'an, for reading it correctly, for memorizing it, ?or every meaning you discover in it, for having been enabled to follow it. Gratitude must also be transformed into deeds.
[I did not want to post too much text, as that can be annoying to read on facebook, thus the above is just an excerpt from one of the chapters.]
I just wanted to share a beautiful excerpt from a book called; "The Way to the Quran", by Ustadh Khurram Murad. Its an small book, with really useful and benefical advice in relation to the Quran.
As the month of the "Quran" is coming. I hope we are all trying our best to get prepared for Ramadan. The best thing would be to --try and bring more of the Quran (reading, studying, fixing ones tajweed, tafsir, etc) into ones life, from NOW before Ramadan starts and continuing it within the blessed month.
In the same light, I wanted to share this excerpt, to give us a boost to our greatest gift, of having this Quran. Enjoy. (There is a link at the bottom, where you can read the whole book for free!)
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Bringing Gratitude and Praise
Third: Make yourself constantly alert with intense praise and gratitude to your Lord for having blessed you with His greatest gift the Qur'an and for having guided you to its reading and study.
Once you realize what a priceless treasure you hold in your hands, it is but natural for your heart to beat with joy and murmur, and for your tongue to join in: 'Thankful praise be to Allah, who has guided us to this; [otherwise] never could we have found guidance had not Allah not guided us' (al-A'raf 7: 43).
Of all the intimate blessings and favours He has bestowed upon you nothing can match the Qur'an. If every hair on your body becomes a tongue praising and thanking Him, if every drop of blood in your body turns into a joyful tear, even then your praise and thanks will not match His enormous generosity that is the Qur'an.
Even if the Qur'an had not been sent down for us, its perfection and beauty, its majesty and splendour would deserve all the praise at our command. But that this sublime and perfect gift, having the unique distinction of embodying our Lord's speech, has been given solely for our sake must intensify our praise beyond bounds.
Such intense praise inevitably turns into intense gratitude. And no word expresses this intense praise combined with overflowing gratitude and thanks as well as does al-hamd.
alhamdu li 'llahi 'I-ladhi hadana li hadha ...
Why thank Allah for having given us the Qur'an? Principally because He has, thus, guided you to meaning and purpose in life and brought you on the Straight Path. The way to honour and dignity in this-world has been opened for you. In the Qur'an, you can converse with Allah. Only by following the Qur'an in this-world can you attain forgiveness, Paradise and Allah's good pleasure in that-world.
Gratitude and joy lead to trust, hope and greater gifts. The One who has given you the Qur'an will surely help you in reading, understanding and following it. Thankfulness and joy generate an ever-fresh vigour which helps you to read the Qur'an always with a renewed zeal. The more you are grateful, the more Allah gives you of the riches that the Qur'an has to offer. Generosity evokes gratitude, gratitude makes you deserve more generosity an unending cycle. Such is God's promise: 'If you are grateful, I will surely give you more and more' (Ibrahim 14: 7).
Having the Qur'an and not feeling immensely grateful for it can only mean two things: either you are ignorant of the blessings that the Qur'an contains, or you do not attach any importance to them. In either case you should be seriously worried about the state of your relationship with the Qur'an. The sentiment of gratitude that permeates every pore of your heart and mind, must also pour out in your words, which should be profuse and incessant. Thank Allah at every step of your journey: for having had time for the Qur'an, for reading it correctly, for memorizing it, ?or every meaning you discover in it, for having been enabled to follow it. Gratitude must also be transformed into deeds.
[I did not want to post too much text, as that can be annoying to read on facebook, thus the above is just an excerpt from one of the chapters.]
The book is available in most book shops, or read it online here: http://www.sunnipath.com/l
(I just copied the message and paste it here without changing anything)
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