“?Is Reciting Qur’an Without Understanding It Is Rewarded”

Naif Yashar

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Is it right in the viewpoint of the Qur’ân and Sunnah to read the Qur’ân without understanding it and to generalize this habit? Is this a good deed or is it a superstitious custom that emerged later on? There is no evidence in the Qur’ân which says that recit-ing the Qur’ân without understanding it will be rewarded whereas there are a lot of verses in the Qur’ân which point out that it is necessary to understand and apply it in everyday life and the aim of revealing the Qur’ân is this. Although the Prophet (PBUH) and the first three generations understood and applied this aim of the Qur’ân, the suc-cessors missed this objective and consciously or unconsciously misleaded it. Though the words used to mean “reading” in the Qur’ân, mean “reading and comprehension”, the conversion of nations who were not Arap and their reciting the Qur’ân without compre-hension, later on caused these words to be understood in the meaning of “reading with-out comprehension”. Although a lot of traditions have been narrated from the Prophet (PBUH) and his successors about reading the Qur’ân, the meaning that was intended in these traditions was, “reading with comprehension.” But atomistic commentators caused these traditions to be misunderstood by quoting the parts of these traditions which they needed for their aims. Although they could not provide a proof from the Qur’ân and Sunnah that reciting the Qur’ân without understanding it is rewarded and although the Prophet (PBUH) and the first three generations blamed the person who recites the Qur’ân without understanding it, the successors of the first three generations, who fo-cused on their culturel and practical ideas, claimed this viewpoint. So, in this article, we will try to find the details of this topic from the Qur’ân and Sunnah and accordingly we will come to a conclusion.

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Lnaguage: Turkish - Type: Research - Number of pages: 433-450 - Date: 2015 - Country: TR