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Sunday 23 October 2016

What does it mean to abandon the Quran

Hold on the Rope of Allah and never let go no matter what

 O people of the Quran make the book of Allah the most high your close companion and never  forsake it lest you fall under those who have forsaked the quran. Remember it was the Quran that  united the Sahabah and melted away there gloomy disunity.

In this post I want to share with you Imam Ibn Qayyim's Tafsir of the ayah below:
Allah the most high says: "And the Messenger will say, 'O my Lord, indeed, my people have deserted this Quran," [Al-Furqaan (25):30]
Imam Ibn Al-Qayyim Comments: "Deserting the Quran is of types:
1. Abandoning listening to it, believing in it, and paying attention to it.

2. Abandoning acting upon it and abiding by what it permits and prohibits, even if one recites it and believes in it.

3. Abandoning referring to it and judging by it in the fundamental issues of the religion or even its subsidiary issues.

4. Abandonment of pondering it, seeking to understand it and what the one who spoke it meant by it.

5. Abandonment of seeking healing through it for all diseases of the heart such that one seeks the cure for his from other sources and abandons seeking healing through it.

All these 5 types of abandonment falls under Allah's statement:

"And the Messenger will say, 'O my Lord, indeed, my people have deserted this Quran,"
Even if some cases of abandoning the Quran are less significant than others."

Source: Al-Fawaa'id by Imam Ibn Al-Qayyim, P82



 

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