Is one who delays completing the recitation of the Qur'an for more than forty days considered to have abandoned it?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This is a set of questions; we present to your eminence whatever of them is feasible. This questioner says: Is one who delays completing the recitation of the Qur'an for more than forty days considered to have abandoned the Qur'an?

Answer:
It is disliked. Yes, indeed, he is considered to have abandoned the Qur'an, because abandonment comes in different types: abandoning recitation, abandoning acting upon it, abandoning ruling by it, and abandoning reflection upon it. Abandonment has types, one of which is leaving off its recitation; this is undoubtedly abandonment of it. Yes.