Prioritizing the Recitation of the Qur'an over Seeking Knowledge
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What is better: Is it better to recite the Qur'an for a long time, or to recite it for a short time and spend the remaining time seeking knowledge, for example, or reading a book, especially if the extensive recitation of the Qur'an is accompanied by little reflection?The Shaykh: Is the intended meaning memorizing the Qur'an or reading it from a book?
The questioner: Reading it from a book.
If it is reading from a book, then seeking knowledge is better—I mean: Islamic knowledge—and seeking Islamic knowledge is, in reality, from the Qur'an; because all Islamic knowledge consists of the rulings of the Qur'an, which are found in it or in the Sunnah that explains it.
The questioner: Reading it from a book.
If it is reading from a book, then seeking knowledge is better—I mean: Islamic knowledge—and seeking Islamic knowledge is, in reality, from the Qur'an; because all Islamic knowledge consists of the rulings of the Qur'an, which are found in it or in the Sunnah that explains it.