ATTITUDES OF HEART AND MIND: Purpose of Recitation
Recite the Qur'an with no other purpose than to come nearer to your Lord and seek His
guidance and good pleasure. You should seek guidance from the Qur'an, for your total life,
and only from the Qur'an. It is the word of Allah; and it requires as much exclusiveness
as He does. One who desires worldly ends from the Qur'an may get them, but he shall surely
lose a whole ocean that could have filled his cup. One who has the Qur'an with him and yet
goes to other sources for guidance, is surely running after mirages.
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