Lessons from Holy Quran
Faith and sincerity are the first requisite if one wants the divine help in understanding the Holy Quran and following the message of God in practical life, which can turn him into a man of excellent character, the crying need of the Muslim nation.
The recitation of the Holy Quran in the month of Ramadan, which is also known as the month of Quran, is a source of infinite blessings.
No doubt, it is the duty of every Muslim, man, woman, or child, to read the Holy Quran and understand it according to his own capacity. If anyone of us attains to some knowledge or understanding of it by study, contemplation, and the test of life, both outward and inward, it is his duty, according to his capacity, to instruct others, and share with them the joy and peace which result from contact with the spiritual world.
The Quran — indeed every religious book — has to be read not only with the tongue and voice and eyes, but with the best light that our intellect can supply, and even more, with the truest and purest light which our heart and conscience can give us. The soul of mysticism and ecstasy is in the Holy Quran, as well as that plain guidance for the plain man, which a world in a hurry affects to consider as sufficient.
Every earnest and reverent student of the Holy Quran, as he proceeds with his study, will find with an inward joy difficult to describe, how the general meaning of the Quranic verses enlarges as his own capacity for understanding increases. It is like a traveller climbing a mountain: the higher he goes, the further he sees.
How much greater is the joy and sense of wonder and miracle when the Holy Quran opens our spiritual eyes. The meaning, which we thought we had grasped, expands. New worlds are opened out. As we progress, still newer and again newer worlds ‘swim into our ken’. The miracle deepens and deepens, and almost completely absorbs us.
It is in this spirit that we should approach the Holy Quran with sincerity and total faith in the religion of Islam.
Source: The Nation
No doubt, it is the duty of every Muslim, man, woman, or child, to read the Holy Quran and understand it according to his own capacity. If anyone of us attains to some knowledge or understanding of it by study, contemplation, and the test of life, both outward and inward, it is his duty, according to his capacity, to instruct others, and share with them the joy and peace which result from contact with the spiritual world.
The Quran — indeed every religious book — has to be read not only with the tongue and voice and eyes, but with the best light that our intellect can supply, and even more, with the truest and purest light which our heart and conscience can give us. The soul of mysticism and ecstasy is in the Holy Quran, as well as that plain guidance for the plain man, which a world in a hurry affects to consider as sufficient.
Every earnest and reverent student of the Holy Quran, as he proceeds with his study, will find with an inward joy difficult to describe, how the general meaning of the Quranic verses enlarges as his own capacity for understanding increases. It is like a traveller climbing a mountain: the higher he goes, the further he sees.
How much greater is the joy and sense of wonder and miracle when the Holy Quran opens our spiritual eyes. The meaning, which we thought we had grasped, expands. New worlds are opened out. As we progress, still newer and again newer worlds ‘swim into our ken’. The miracle deepens and deepens, and almost completely absorbs us.
It is in this spirit that we should approach the Holy Quran with sincerity and total faith in the religion of Islam.
Source: The Nation
