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Reading The Quran With Purify Intention

1. The author outlines 8 ways to approach reading the Quran with purity of intention, including reading it solely to receive guidance from God and seek His pleasure, not for intellectual pursuit alone or to find support for one's own views. 2. One should not use the Quran to gain worldly benefits like fame, status or money, though lesser benefits like healing or peace are permissible if not the sole goal. 3. The purest intention is to devote one's mind and time solely to seeking God's pleasure by surrendering to the guidance He has sent.

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Reading The Quran With Purify Intention

1. The author outlines 8 ways to approach reading the Quran with purity of intention, including reading it solely to receive guidance from God and seek His pleasure, not for intellectual pursuit alone or to find support for one's own views. 2. One should not use the Quran to gain worldly benefits like fame, status or money, though lesser benefits like healing or peace are permissible if not the sole goal. 3. The purest intention is to devote one's mind and time solely to seeking God's pleasure by surrendering to the guidance He has sent.

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8 ways of approaching the Quran with purity of intention 
12/5/2010 - Religious - Article Ref: IC1012-4374
Number of comments: 8 
By: Khurram Murad 
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 Read the Quran with no purpose other than to receive guidance from your Lord,
and to seek His good pleasure.

What you get from the Quran depends on what you come to it for. Your intention and purpose is crucial
the Quran has come to guide you, but you may also go astray by reading it should you approach it for i
purposes and wrong motives.

Thereby He causes many to go astray, and thereby He guides many; but thereby He causes none to go
the iniquitous (al-Baqarah 2:26).

The Quran is the word of God; it therefore requires as much exclusiveness of intention and purity of pu
worshipping and serving Him.

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Do not read it merely for intellectual pursuit and pleasure; even though you must apply your in
full to the task of understanding the Quran. So many people spend a lifetime in studying the language,
geography, law and ethics of the Quran, and yet their lives remain untouched by its message. The Qura
refers to people who have knowledge but do not derive benefit from it.

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Nor should you come to the Quran with the fixed intention of finding support for your own v
and doctrines. For if you do, you may, then, hear an echo of your own voice in it, and not that of God.
approach to the understanding and interpreting of the Quran that the Prophet, blessings and peace be o
condemned. 

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Nothing could be more unfortunate than to use the Quran to secure, for your own person, w
things such as name, esteem, status, fame or money. You may get them, but you will surely be b
a priceless treasure for nothing, indeed even incurring eternal loss and ruin.

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 [Do not limit the Quran to just healing of bodily afflictions, psychological peace, and deliver
poverty.] You may also derive other lesser benefits, from the words of the Quran, such as the healing
afflictions, psychological peace, and deliverance from poverty. There is no bar to having these, but, aga
should not become the be all and end all that you seek from the Quran nor the goal of your niyyah. For
these you may lose a whole ocean that could have been yours. 

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Reading every single letter of the Quran carries with it great rewards. 6 Remain conscious of all the r
make them an objective of your intention, for they will provide you with those strong incentives re
spend your life with the Quran. But never forget that on understanding, absorbing and following the Qu
been promised much larger rewards, in this-world and in the Hereafter. It is these which you must aim

Nothing brings you nearer to your Lord than the moments you spend with His words. For it is only in th
you enjoy the unique blessing of hearing His 'voice' addressing you. 7 So let an intense desire to com
God be your one overwhelming motive while reading the Quran.

Finally, 8 your intention should be directed to seeking only your Lord's pleasure by devoting y
mind and time to the guidance that He has sent to you. That is what you barter when you surrend
God: 'There is such as would sell his own self in order to please God' (al-Baqarah 2:207).

Purpose and intentions are like the soul of a body, the inner capability of a seed. Many seeds look alike
begin to grow and bear fruits, their differences become manifest. The purer and higher the motive, the
value and yield of your efforts.

So always ask yourself: Why am I reading the Quran? This may be the best way to ensure the purity an
exclusiveness of purpose and intention.

Excerpted and adapted from the book "Way to the Quran" by Khurram Murad

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