From Knowing to Experiencing the Quran
Hassan Saeed
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Last week I attended a lecture by Dr. Mustafa Khattab, translator of The Clear Quran. Listening to him speak about the Quran after spending over 20 years studying and translating it was genuinely inspiring.
After the lecture, a friend turned to me and said, “SubhanAllah, he’s so blessed to be able to dedicate 20 years to the Quran.”
And it hit me that every Muslim wants that blessing of being among the people of the Quran, yet so many of us struggle to commit to reading even a single page a day.
So why is that?
We’ve heard reminders, read verses, and listened to lectures. The knowledge is there but when it comes to actually opening the Quran, we hesitate and tell ourselves that we’ll start tomorrow.
It’s like being diagnosed with an illness and having the doctor hand you the cure, yet you choose not to take it. Leaving the medicine on the shelf while you’re getting worse every day.
That’s exactly what we’re doing with the Quran.
“O humanity! Indeed, there has come to you a warning from your Lord, a cure for what is in the hearts, a guide, and a mercy for the believers.” [Yunus 57]
When you look around, mental illness, anxiety, and depression are at all time high everywhere. We’re living in a time when people are desperately searching for peace, yet the cure has been here for over 1,400 years while we keep our distance.
Knowing vs Experiencing
Reading the menu doesn’t fill your stomach. At some point, you have to actually eat.
The same goes for the Quran. You can know everything about its virtues, its rewards, its importance, but until you sit with it regularly and let it speak to you, it remains theoretical.
For those of us struggling to take the first step, here’s a powerful Dua’ the Prophet ﷺ taught us:
“O Allah, I am Your slave, and the son of Your male slave, and the son of your female slave.
My forehead is in Your Hand. Your Judgment upon me is assured, and Your Decree concerning me is just.
I ask You by every Name that You have named Yourself with, revealed in Your Book, taught any one of Your creation, or kept unto Yourself in the knowledge of the unseen that is with You, to make the Quran the spring of my heart, and the light of my chest, the banisher of my sadness, and the reliever of my distress.”
Take the Medicine
This is the moment where everything can change, where you stop being someone who wishes they had a relationship with the Quran and become someone who actually does.
Make the Dua’ that the Prophet ﷺ taught us, then open the Quran and read one page. Just one. And then tomorrow, do it again. And the day after that. And watch what happens when you finally take the medicine you’ve been prescribed.
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