Abandoning the Qur'an and Its Types
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Furqan 25:30] Does this verse apply to a person who has several mushafs in his home but only reads from one, while the rest are not read from?
Answer:
This is what we know. Abandonment comes in different types. Abandoning recitation is when one does not read the Qur'an; if he does not read the Qur'an, neither from the mushaf nor from parts of it, that is abandoning the Qur'an. The second type is abandoning action; he reads the Qur'an but does not act upon it. This is a sin for which I bear witness, and this is abandoning action with the Qur'an, even if he reads it. This is more common than the first type.
The second type is abandoning the meanings. He reads the Qur'an as mere recitation, without reading the meanings or reading the tafsir of a verse when he wants to know its meaning. It is just reciting the letters. This is abandoning the meaning. Abandonment may be abandoning the Divine, or abandoning the meaning of the Qur'an without becoming acquainted with it, or abandoning action with the Qur'an, and this is the most severe.
Honorable Shaykh, Allah the Exalted said:
And the Messenger has said, "O my Lord, indeed my people have taken this Qur'an as [a thing] abandoned."
وَقَالَ الرَّسُولُ يَا رَبِّ إِنَّ قَوْمِي اتَّخَذُوا هَٰذَا الْقُرْآنَ مَهْجُورًاAnswer:
This is what we know. Abandonment comes in different types. Abandoning recitation is when one does not read the Qur'an; if he does not read the Qur'an, neither from the mushaf nor from parts of it, that is abandoning the Qur'an. The second type is abandoning action; he reads the Qur'an but does not act upon it. This is a sin for which I bear witness, and this is abandoning action with the Qur'an, even if he reads it. This is more common than the first type.
The second type is abandoning the meanings. He reads the Qur'an as mere recitation, without reading the meanings or reading the tafsir of a verse when he wants to know its meaning. It is just reciting the letters. This is abandoning the meaning. Abandonment may be abandoning the Divine, or abandoning the meaning of the Qur'an without becoming acquainted with it, or abandoning action with the Qur'an, and this is the most severe.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 113 من 175 /شرح بلوغ المرام/البيوع/إحياء الموات/صالح الفوزان/الحديث/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (49:31)
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