Take the example of learning English. No one in our society is born speaking English; everyone’s mother tongue is something else. Yet once English is learned, people speak it fluently. In fact, children are taught so much English that they can even teach it to native speakers. But the Noble Quran is not even recited to the extent that one’s Salah becomes correct.

How unfortunate! So much has been learned, yet what has not been learned is how to recite the Quran correctly.

1. Religious knowledge was not learned.

2. The rulings of Shari‘ah were not learned.

3. Acting upon the Sunnahs of the Beloved Master صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم was not learned.

4. Pleasing Allah Almighty was not learned.

5. Respecting and honouring parents was not learned.

6. Respecting elders and showing kindness to the young was not learned.

7. Obligatory knowledge was not learned.

Whereas learning all of these is essential for every Muslim.

Come, for encouragement, let us listen to a few faith-strengthening parables about the love of the pious predecessors رَحْمَةُ اللّٰہِ عَلَيْهمْ اَجْمَعِين for the Noble Quran:

The Pious Predecessors and Recitation of the Quran

1. It is narrated that when the blessed month of Ramadan would begin, Hazrat Sufyan Thawri رَحْمَةُ اللّٰہِ عَلَيْه would leave all other voluntary acts of worship and completely occupy himself in the recitation of the Noble Quran.

 (Din aur Dunya ki Anokhi Baatain, p. 61)

2. Hazrat Muhammad bin Isma‘il Bukhari رَحْمَةُ اللّٰہِ عَلَيْه, famously known as Imam Bukhari رَحْمَةُ اللّٰہِ عَلَيْه, despite his many responsibilities, had an intense love for reciting the noble Quran. During Ramadan, he would complete one full recitation of the Noble Quran daily during the day, and after Taraweeh,