The Return To The Quran

It would be appropriate to mention...considering that we are talking about the Quran, and the return to the Qur'an...that we find to look back and to study Fada'il ul-Qur'an, to look at the virtues of the Qur'an that may begin to inspire us to live, to become people of Ahl-ul-Qur'an, people of the Qur'an, and thus you find Ibn Kathir, Imam-un-Mufassireen, has written in great detail, in the beginning of his tafsir, talking about the virtues of the Qur'an, and likewise you find inside many books of ahadith, collecting chapters of ahadith about Fadail-ul Qur'an, to look at the virtues of the Qur'an. Amongst those ahadith that come to mind, if you look inside Riyadh-us Saliheen, its talking about the hadith...that the believer who recites the Qur'an...the believer who recites the Qur'an and carries out the actions of the Qur'an, as we find in a hadith of Al-Bukhari, when Aaishah (May Allah be pleased with her) was asked about the Prophet (ﷺ) and she mentioned, 'his character was the Qur'an' -- with which meaning, that he stuck to the halal (permissible) and avoided the haram (forbidden). So the highest level of being a believer is a person who recites the Qur'an, and also implements the Qur'an. 

That individual's hadith, that parable is given, 'kal utrujjati' is like a citron, a type of orange, whose fragrance is good, and its taste is sweet. That is the ultimate level of a believer, who finds 'halaawat-ul-Iman' - the sweetness of Iman, of not just listening to the melodious recitation of the Qur'an but also finds the sweetness in the implementation of the Qur'an, and this is one of the many reasons, or the main reasons that we find weakness of this Blessed Muslim Ummah, is a lack of implementation of the Qur'an, thus we find the Qur'an mentions, 'This is a Blessed Book that We have sent down upon you, that you may be given to ponder over its verses.' Imam Al-Hassan al-Basri mentioned that you begin to, to ponder over the verses, there's a general meaning of just pondering over the verses, but the hidden meaning is...is to live according to the Qur'an, to try to implement the Qur'an to the best of one's ability. 

Thus the Qur'an mentions inside Suratul-Furqan, the twenty-fifth chapter of the Qur'an, the messenger will make this statement, 'O my Lord! Indeed my people have abandoned the Qur'an.' [25:30] What is the meaning of 'Hajral Qur'an?' What does it mean to abandon the Qur'an? Amongst the meanings, the plausible meanings of abandoning the Qur'an is obviously that which is clear, the recitation of the Qur'an, as the Qur'an mentions inside Suratul-Baqarah as well, 'Some of us, we throw the Book of Allah Subhanahu Ta'ala (May He be Glorified and Exalted) behind our backs, as if we don't know.' This Qur'an, the Qur'an is an evidence for you, or an evidence against you, for all of us Muslims. 

Barak Allahu Feekum.

By Ustadh Murtaza Khan