The meaning of abandoning the Qur'an in the statement of Allah the Exalted: "They took this Qur'an as abandoned"
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: What is meant by abandoning the Qur'an in His saying:[Al-Furqan 25:30]
The Shaykh:
It means they did not act upon it.[Al-Furqan 25:30] It means they did not act upon it. Yes.
The questioner:
Then he says, may Allah preserve you, and does the one who does not
The Shaykh:
abandon recitation, but abandons acting upon the Qur'an? Yes.
The questioner:
Then he says, may Allah preserve you, is the one who does not read the Qur'an except in prayer considered to have abandoned it?
The Shaykh:
Yes, it is a type of abandonment. He restricts himself to what he reads in prayer only. He reads the Qur'an, and for every letter he reads, he gets a good deed, and the good deed is multiplied tenfold, and he does not deprive himself. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: What is meant by abandoning the Qur'an in His saying:
have taken this Qur'an as [a thing] abandoned."
اتَّخَذُوا هَٰذَا الْقُرْآنَ مَهْجُورًاThe Shaykh:
It means they did not act upon it.
have taken this Qur'an as [a thing] abandoned."
اتَّخَذُوا هَٰذَا الْقُرْآنَ مَهْجُورًاThe questioner:
Then he says, may Allah preserve you, and does the one who does not
The Shaykh:
abandon recitation, but abandons acting upon the Qur'an? Yes.
The questioner:
Then he says, may Allah preserve you, is the one who does not read the Qur'an except in prayer considered to have abandoned it?
The Shaykh:
Yes, it is a type of abandonment. He restricts himself to what he reads in prayer only. He reads the Qur'an, and for every letter he reads, he gets a good deed, and the good deed is multiplied tenfold, and he does not deprive himself. Yes.
Source
شرح العقيدة الواسطية، العقيدة الواسطية 11-07-1437هـ — alfawzan.live (1:16:19)
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