the Muslims. But when the Muslims stopped acting upon the Glorious Quran, they became disgraced and dependent upon others.

The worldly harms of not acting upon the Quran are bad enough, but the harms in the Hereafter are also extremely severe.

The harms in the Hereafter of not acting upon the Quran

Sayyiduna Abdullah Bin Mas’ood رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ عَـنْهُ narrates that the Beloved Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said, ‘The Quran is an intercessor and its intercession is accepted; whosoever placed it before himself (by acting upon its commandments), it will hold on to him and take him towards Paradise, and whosoever placed it behind himself (by opposing its commandments), it will drag him towards Hell.’ (Mu’jam Kabeer, vol. 10, p. 198, Hadith 10450, Selected; Sirat-ul-Jinan, Part 8, Surah Al-An’aam, under verse 155, vol. 3, p. 247, summarised)

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                                  صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Dear Islamic brothers! The inclination towards learning and teaching worldly knowledge today is almost reaching levels of insanity. It is being promoted everywhere, people are undertaking continuous struggles in order to gain proficiency in various languages, some people take various computer courses from time-to-time, they take engineering courses, they amass degrees in various fields, they pay hefty fees for all of this, they are experts in solving various issues relating to computers and large machinery, they speak English with such proficiency that they can teach others, etc.

But unfortunately, the Holy Quran about which a Hadith in Sahih Bukhari states: ‘خَيْرُكُمْ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ الْقُرْاٰنَ وَعَلَّمَه’, i.e. ‘The best from among you is the one who learns the Quran and teaches it’, (Bukhari, vol. 3, p. 410, Hadith 5027) the Holy Quran for which the Noble Sahabah رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ عَـنْهُم and pious