Dedication of the reward of reciting the Qur'an
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Question:
We move on to this message sent by Muhammad from Tabuk. He says: My mother does not know how to read. Is it permissible for me to recite the Qur'an with the intention that the reward reaches her, knowing that she is still alive?
Answer:
There is no evidence for this, and there is no evidence to act upon regarding dedicating the reward of reciting the Qur'an to another person. The default is that the deed belongs to the doer, and the reward of the deed belongs to the doer,[An-Najm 53:39], except for what evidence indicates may be dedicated to others, such as charity, supplication, and Hajj or 'Umrah. Everything else remains under the default that the reward belongs to the doer and not to anyone else. Yes.
We move on to this message sent by Muhammad from Tabuk. He says: My mother does not know how to read. Is it permissible for me to recite the Qur'an with the intention that the reward reaches her, knowing that she is still alive?
Answer:
There is no evidence for this, and there is no evidence to act upon regarding dedicating the reward of reciting the Qur'an to another person. The default is that the deed belongs to the doer, and the reward of the deed belongs to the doer,
And that there is not for man except that [good] for which he strives
وَأَن لَّيْسَ لِلْإِنسَانِ إِلَّا مَا سَعَىٰ
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/218 — archive.org (2:07)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.