The ruling on focusing on learning the meanings of the Qur'an for one who has memorized it but has not learned them
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, we are students who have memorized the Qur'an, and praise be to Allah, but we do not know its meaning because we are not Arabs. Now we have begun to interpret the Qur'an through the hands of some shaykhs in this country. So, should we focus on this during the period in which we have not learned its meanings?
Answer:
You do not sin except with the ability. If you are able to learn the meanings of the Qur'an and you have not learned them, then you are sinning. But if you are not able to do so in that period, then there is no blame on you, if Allah wills, according to your ability. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, we are students who have memorized the Qur'an, and praise be to Allah, but we do not know its meaning because we are not Arabs. Now we have begun to interpret the Qur'an through the hands of some shaykhs in this country. So, should we focus on this during the period in which we have not learned its meanings?
Answer:
You do not sin except with the ability. If you are able to learn the meanings of the Qur'an and you have not learned them, then you are sinning. But if you are not able to do so in that period, then there is no blame on you, if Allah wills, according to your ability. Yes.
Source
شرح لمعة الاعتقاد [ صالح الفوزان ]، بداية من قوله : وقال - تعالى - : { كهيعص } — islamhouse.com (57:10)
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