Question: When is it impermissible to recite the Holy Quran aloud?
Answer: Reciting the Holy Quran and listening to it are indeed acts of great reward. One attains a reward equivalent to ten rewards for every letter of the Quran that he recites. However, Islamic Jurists have prohibited reciting the Quran loud in some circumstances: In a gathering, it is ’Haram for all the people to recite the Holy Quran loud. Often in Teejahs1, people are found reciting the Holy Quran loudly. If there are few people to recite the Holy Quran, then the ruling is that they should recite the Quran in a low voice. (Bahar-e-Shari’at, vol. 1, pp. 552, Part 3)
- It is also forbidden to recite the Holy Quran loudly at such a place where the students of [Islamic] knowledge are studying or revising. 1 A gathering arranged for conveying reward to the deceased on the third day of his demise. Similarly, in places where people are busy working and in markets or shopping centres, it is impermissible to recite the Holy Quran aloud. If people do not listen to the recitation, then the person reciting it will become sinful. If he started reciting it before people got engaged in their works and that place is not fixed for any sort of work, nowif he starts the recitation first and people do not listen to it, then the people will be sinful and if he started the recitation after people started their works, then he (the reciter) will be sinful. (Ghuniya-tul-Mutamalli, pp. 497) The sin of forgetting Quran after memorising it
Question: What is the ruling for those who memorise the Quran and then forget it?
Answer: Those who memorise the Holy Quran and then forget it are deserving of the following admonitions mentioned in the blessed Ahadees. The Beloved Rasool has stated: The good deeds of my Ummah were presented to me, even a piece of straw that a person removes from the Masjid. And the sins of my Ummah were presented to me. I did not come across a bigger sin than a person memorising one surah or one Ayah of the Holy Quran and then forgetting it. (Tirmizi, vol. 4, pp. 420, Hadees 2925) It has been narrated from Sayyiduna Sa’d bin Ubadah that the Holy Rasool has said : The person who read the Quran, memorised it and then forgot it will come as a leper to Allah Almighty on the Day of Judgement. (Abu Dawood, vol. 2, pp. 107, Hadees 1474) Ala Hazrat, Imam-e-Ahl-e-Sunnah, Maulana Shah Imam Ahmed Raza Khan has said: Who is more unwise than the one whom Allah gave such talent and capability (of memorising the Holy Quran) but he buries this talent with his own hands! If he valued it and knew the reward and ranks promised over it, then he would guard the Quran he had memorized with his heart and soul! Ala Hazrat further states: A person who has memorised the Holy Quran should keep himself busy in keeping it remembered, teaching it and making others memorise it so that he can attain the reward that is promised over it and he can avoid the punishment of being raised as a blind leper on the Day of Judgement. (Fatawa Razaviyyah, vol. 23, pp. 645-647) Respected Huffaz must work extremely hard and observe strict caution. They should strive day and night to keep the Holy Quran remembered so that they become deserving of the reward and attain salvation from being raised as leper on the Day of Judgement.
The messenger (PBUH) said: Deeds depend upon the intentions.
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