Indeed those who came before you saw the Qur'an as personal letters from their Lord. So they would ponder over it by night and yearn for it by day" - Hasan al-Basri (rahimahullah)
Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud said " A memoriser of the Quraan should be known for his long night prayers when people are asleep, his fasting when people are eating, his saddness when people are happy, his slience when people are talking nonsense, and his humbleness when people are not. He should be wise, gentle and not talk to much: he should not be rude, negligent, clamorous, nor hot tempered"
Ibn Al-Qayyim:Never do the love of song and the love of Qur`ân come together in a person’s heart except that one expels the other. (Madârij Al-Sâlikîn, Vol.1 p487)
The Heart’s Best Medicine
Ibn Al Qayyim, may Allaah have mercy upon him, says:
In short, there is nothing more beneficial for the heart than reading the Qur’aan and with contemplation and reflection. The Qur’aan encompasses all the levels of the travellers, the conditions of the workers, and stations of those possessing knowledge. It is the Qur’aan that generates love, desire, fear, hope, repentance, reliance, pleasure, entrustment, gratitude, patience, and the rest of the different states that are life to the heart and perfection of it. Likewise, it repels all the rebuked characteristics and actions that cause the corruption and ruin of the heart.
If people were to possess a realization of what recitation of the Qur’aan with contemplation contains, they would devote themselves to it at the expense of anything else. When the person reads it with reflection and he comes across an aayah that he is in need of, for the cure of his heart, he repeats it, even if he does so a hundred times or the whole night. Hence, to recite a single aayah of the Qur’aan with contemplation and reflection is better than reciting the Qur’aan to completion without any contemplation or reflection. It is also more beneficial for the heart and more conducive to attaining eemaan and tasting the sweetness of the Qur’aan.
Source: Miftaah Daar as-Sa’aadah, page 204 | Ibn Al Qayyim
Transcribed from: Causes Behind the Increase and Decrease of Eemaan | Shaykh ‘Abdur-Razzaaq al-’Abbaad
Abu Musa Al-Ash’ari said:
Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud said " A memoriser of the Quraan should be known for his long night prayers when people are asleep, his fasting when people are eating, his saddness when people are happy, his slience when people are talking nonsense, and his humbleness when people are not. He should be wise, gentle and not talk to much: he should not be rude, negligent, clamorous, nor hot tempered"
Ibn Al-Qayyim:Never do the love of song and the love of Qur`ân come together in a person’s heart except that one expels the other. (Madârij Al-Sâlikîn, Vol.1 p487)
The Heart’s Best Medicine
Ibn Al Qayyim, may Allaah have mercy upon him, says:
In short, there is nothing more beneficial for the heart than reading the Qur’aan and with contemplation and reflection. The Qur’aan encompasses all the levels of the travellers, the conditions of the workers, and stations of those possessing knowledge. It is the Qur’aan that generates love, desire, fear, hope, repentance, reliance, pleasure, entrustment, gratitude, patience, and the rest of the different states that are life to the heart and perfection of it. Likewise, it repels all the rebuked characteristics and actions that cause the corruption and ruin of the heart.
If people were to possess a realization of what recitation of the Qur’aan with contemplation contains, they would devote themselves to it at the expense of anything else. When the person reads it with reflection and he comes across an aayah that he is in need of, for the cure of his heart, he repeats it, even if he does so a hundred times or the whole night. Hence, to recite a single aayah of the Qur’aan with contemplation and reflection is better than reciting the Qur’aan to completion without any contemplation or reflection. It is also more beneficial for the heart and more conducive to attaining eemaan and tasting the sweetness of the Qur’aan.
Source: Miftaah Daar as-Sa’aadah, page 204 | Ibn Al Qayyim
Transcribed from: Causes Behind the Increase and Decrease of Eemaan | Shaykh ‘Abdur-Razzaaq al-’Abbaad
Abu Musa Al-Ash’ari said:
إن هذا القرآن كائن لكم أجرا، وكائن عليكم وزرا، فاتبعوا القرآن و لا يتبعنكم القرآن ! فإنه من اتبع القرآن هبط به على رياض الجنة ومن تبعه القرآن زخ في قفاه، فقذفه في النار
“This Qur’an can either be your blessed reward, or it can become your unexpected burden on the day of reckoning. Follow the Qur’an and do not let the Qur’an follow you! For whosoever follows the Qur’an, it will lead him to the blissful gardens of janna, and whosoever is followed by the Qur’an, it will chase him and force him until it shoves him into the abyss of hell-fire (naar al-jahannam)”.
["Hilyat Al-Awliya", 1/257].
Al-Aajoeri writes:
ومن كانت هذه صفته عند تلاوته للقرآن وعند استماعه من غيره كان القرآن له شفاء فاستغنى بلا مال
وعزّ بلا عشيرة وأنس بما يستوحش منه غيره
وعزّ بلا عشيرة وأنس بما يستوحش منه غيره
“And the Qur’an is a medicine for whomsoever has these qualities in reciting or listening to it. He will be rich without money; powerful without a clan and he will feel accompanied where others feel loneliness”.
["Akhlaaq Hamlat Al-Qur'an", 10].
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