Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle

or recite) 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 rise up to the ’Arsh from a house where the
Qur’ân al-kerîm is being read.” Abû Hureyra ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’
said: “Baraka and goodness come to a house where the Qur’ân alkerîm
is being read (or recited); angels come together there;
devils flee from there.” It produces plenty of thawâb to listen to
the Qur’ân al-kerîm being 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 al-kerîm must not be made a means
of living. A hadîth-i sherîf declares: “When reading the Qur’ân alkerîm,
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 al-kerîm a means for approaching people.”
It is written in the book Shir’at-ul-islâm: “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 being 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 Qâdî-Khân, 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. Those who do so
should not be prevented.”
A hadîth-i sherîf, which exists in the book Tenbîh-ul ghâfilîn [1] ,
declares: “Even if the (dead) parents of the person reading the
Qur’ân al-kerîm are disbelievers, their torment is lessened.” A
tradition (conveyed by savants) declares: “The number of the
grades in Paradise is the same as the number of the âyats (verses)
in the Qur’ân al-kerîm. A person who accomplishes a khatm of the
Qur’ân al-kerîm will attain to all those grades.” A hadîth-i sherîf,
which exists in Kunûz-ud deqâiq and which is transmitted by
[1] Written by Abul-Leys Semerqandî ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’, (d. 373 [983
A.D.].)
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