“Is it disrespectful if I recite Qurʾān as I’m doing other things?”…
I’ve learnt something beautiful. When Allāh knows that a person is sincere and dedicated in an act of worship, He facilitates it for them. When Allāh loves an act of worship from someone, He keeps them steadfast on it. He gives them the means and the support to remain persistent upon it. Allāh is al-Muʾmin and from the meanings of al-Muʾmin is that He illuminates hearts with faith and He gives His believing servants reasons to remain steadfast.…
When the great scholar Sulaym b. Ayyūb as-Sulaym (known as Abū Fatḥ ar-Rāzī, d. 447 hijrī) was a ten year old child in his hometown of Rey, Iran, he went to a sheikh to learn recitation of the Qurʾān. He narrates; the sheikh called me over and asked me to start reciting the Qurʾān. I started to recite sūrat al-Fātiḥah but struggled to do so and couldn’t complete its recitation because of how poor my pronunciation was. So the sheikh…
The more you repeatedly study something, the more your understanding grows and expands. This is the tried and tested study technique of scholars over the past centuries. What’s interesting is that it doesn’t just apply to the Qurʾān and aḥādīth, but also to books written by scholars. For that reason, scholars from early on would emphasis on memorising scholarly texts just as they would emphasise on the Qurʾān and aḥādīth of Rasūl Allāh ﷺ. Al-Muzanī said, ❝I read ar-Risālah (a…