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

 

Nahw (Arabic grammer) is the mentor for the tongue

Avoid grammatical errors in speech and writing, for a lack of grammatical errors is honourable, shows pure literary taste, appreciation of elegant meanings due to sound structure (speech and writing). On the authority of Umar that he said: "Learn Arabic (grammer), for indeed it increases honour." There are also Salaf used to hit there children if they made grammatical errors.

Al-Khateeb Al-Baghdaadi narrated that Ar-Rahbee said: "I heard someof our peers say: 'If a person who makes grammatical errors writes from another person like him, and he writes from another person like him, the hadeeth will end up in Persian!'''  

 Imam Al-Mubarad said in one of his poems:

 "Grammar straightens the tongue that speaks ungrammatical language,

And you honour the person if he does not  make grammatical errors,

If you seek the greastest knowledge,

Then the greatest of it is that which straightens the tongue."

Therefore, do not pay attention to what Al-Qaasim Ibn Mukhaymarah said: "Learning grammer begins with absolute engagement and ends with transgression", nor the saying of Bishr Al-Haafi who, when it was said to him, "Learn grammar." Replied, "I will stray." So it was said to him, "Say: Zayd struck Amr (grammatically)," so he replied, "O my brother! Why did he strike him?" So he said, "O Aboo Nasr! He did not strike him but this is an established principle." So Bishr said to him, "The beginning of this knowledge is based upon lies, there is no need for it."

Source: The etiquette of seeking knowledge by Shaykh Bakr Aboo Zayd, P89