Muslims have abandoned the Qur'ān!

The Qur'ān states something very disconcerting that will occur on the Day of Judgement in relation to itself. It has has recorded a complaint of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) who complained to Allāh (ﷻ) that his people have forsaken the Qur'ān: Sūrah Furqān āyah 30: And on that Day the Messenger of Allah will say: “O my Lord-God. Behold, my people have forsaken this Qur'ān!”

Notice that the Qur'ān is making reference to something that the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) will say in the future, but speaks about it in the past tense. This adds emphasis to the fact that this will definitely happen which should thus add to our concern regarding what this āyah means.

So the natural question is “who is he referring to?” And why does the Qur'ān make reference to the tone of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) being one of anguish?

When we analyse this āyah of the Qur'ān, we can sense that this āyah is a ‘warning’ and also a ‘reminder’, that this one single āyah of the Qur'ān might well be an evidence against us on the Day of Judgement and should thus be sufficient to instill a level of humility within us and break our sense of entitlement that we seem to have in believing that only we, or more particularly our sect or school of thought, are going to Jannah to the exclusion of everyone else. This arrogance that one witnesses on a daily basis of people believing and expressing that only they are on ‘Haqq’ and will go to Jannah is an arrogance that could be crushed by just this one āyah of the Qur'ān.

---

The very first evidence of the abandonment of the Qur'ān

“The word Qur'ān means a ‘recitation’”

All the revealed scriptures have ‘names’, but the very last revealed scripture which was sent down to Nabī Muhammad (ﷺ) was simply named as Qur'ān— which means a ‘recitation’. In addition, the first word to be revealed in the Qur'ān was the Divine command:“اقرا/Recite”.

Since the Qur’ān was sent to people who ‘think’, all of mankind have a duty to ‘think’ in order to understand this unusual choice of a name. Why was this scripture simply called ‘a recitation’ Why was the command: ‘recite’, the first word revealed in it?

Our answer to the above question is that there is a Divine wisdom at work in the choice of the name which establishes an imperative that this unique last Divine scripture to mankind is meant, first of all, to be ‘recited’. The very first duty of every Muslim towards the Qur'ān is to recite it.

But, How many of us recite the Qur'ān everyday? How many of us complete the recitation of the Qur'ān every lunar month?

The first evidence of the abandonment of the Qur'ān is when Muslims no longer recite the Qur'ān in accordance with the Divinely-ordained way that it must be recited. (refer the book ‘The Qur'ān and The Moon’ by Sheikh Imran Nazar Hosein for the correct methodology of reciting the Qur'ān)

As the blessed month of Ramadān is approaching, the main objective of this post is to direct the attention of our readers to the role of the continuous recitation of the Qur'ān, cover-to-cover every lunar month and especially in the month of Ramadān because the month of Ramadān is directly connected to the Qur'ān for it is the month in which it was revealed.

We strongly advice our readers who have not yet developed the habit of completing the recitation of the Qur'ān every lunar month to start doing so with this Ramadān, Indeed it shall be of a great benifit, In Shā Allāh.

And of course Muslims have abandoned and forsaken the Qur'ān in various other ways but we omit them here.