5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

is a very ugly bid’at to read the Qur’ân melodiously, which has
become customary among the hâfizes recently; it is very sinful.
You must read the Qur’ân with a mellifluous and sorrowful voice
and with fear of Allah. It is written in the Fatwâ of Bezzâziyya,
“A person who reads the Qur’ân al-kerîm melodiously like
singing will not be given any thawâb.” It is wâjib to say the
A’ûdhu when beginning to read (or recite) a sûra or an âyat.
And when beginning to read the Fâtiha it is wâjib also to say the
Basmala. It is sunna to say the Basmala when beginning other
âyats. A hadîth-i sherîf declares, “When you read the Qur’ân
al-kerîm observing the rules of tajwîd, you will be given
twenty thawâbs for each letter. You will be given ten
thâwabs if you do not follow the rules of tajwîd.” It is one of
the gravest sins to forget an âyat after having memorized it. A
hadîth declares, “Nûrs (haloes) rise up to the Arsh from a
house where Qur’ân al-kerîm is read.” Abû Hureyra
(radiyallâhu ’anh) said, “Baraka and goodness come to a house
where Qur’ân al-kerîm is read; angels come together there;
devils flee from there.” It produces plenty of thawâb to listen to
Qur’ân al-kerîm read. A hadîth-i sherîf declares, “An âyat one
listens to will be a nûr (light) for one on the Day of Rising.”
Reading the Qur’ân must not be made a means of living. A
hadîth-i sherîf declares, “When reading the Qur’ân, wish for
Allah’s love and for Paradise! Do not wish for what is
worldly! Such a time will come when hâfizes will make the
Qur’ân a means for approaching people.”
It is written in the book Shir’a, “It is mustahab to do a khatm
of the Qur’ân al-kerîm, that is, to read the whole of it, in forty
days. It is not permissible to do a khatm in less than three days.
The prayer done at the end of a khatm is acceptable. You must
try to attend (places where) prayers of khatm are done. When
the khatm is over, you must read the Fâtiha with the intention to
begin a khatm again. A hadîth-i sherîf declares, “The best of
mankind is one who begins a new khatm when one khatm
is over.” The book Kadîhan, in its chapter dealing with qirâ’at
while performing salât, says that there are some savants who
said that it would be makrûh to do the prayers of khatm in
jamâ’at. But the later scholars said that it would be better. They
should not be prevented.”
A hadîth-i sherîf, which exists in the book Tenbîh-ul
ghâfilîn, declares, “Even if the (dead) parents of the person
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