Let us enhance our Qur'an experience!

Everytime you open your Mus’haf, make it a point to recite Surah alFatihah before reciting any part of the Qur'an, and see the magic unfold. Whichever passage you read from the Qur'an would seem to be an answer to Surah alFatihah. Try to connect the dots, and you would find that the passage under study would explain one or more of the following things:

a. What does it mean by Allah to be Rabb?
b. How is He Rahman and Raheem?
c. What and How exactly would be Yaum adDeen (the Day of Judgement)?
d. How and Why is He to be thanked and praised?
e. How and Why should we serve and worship Him?
f. How and Why should we seek His help and what is the response we can expect?
g. What is the Straight Middle Path?
h. How does He guide us to it?
i. What are the qualities of those whom He favours and shows this Path?
j. What are the characteristics of those on whom He gets furious?
k. What are the characteristics of those who have deviated from that Path?


This approach would make our study of the Qur'an more systematic and fruitful, and it would allow us to gain more from the Qur'an than we usually do. Try it out.

Keep me in your prayers.

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