Combining between Memorizing the Noble Qur’an and Seeking Knowledge

Q: How can we combine between memorizing the Noble Qur’an and seeking
knowledge?


A: Start with the Qur’an, reading it and perfecting its recitation. If you accomplish
this –may Allah aid you in seeking knowledge- this is a great bounty from Allah upon
you. The Qur’an will be ease for the one who (sincerely) wants it, for verily, Allah

the Most High says,


وََلَقدْ يَسَّرْنَا الُقرْآ َ ن للذِّكِْر َفهَلْ مِنْ مُدَّكٍِر


“And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember,
then is there any that will remember (or receive admonition)?” [Al-Qamar: 17]

 

The Qur’an is the key to every (Islamic) science. Your perfection of its recitation
and memorizing it will open up for you areas of knowledge that only Allah knows
(best to what extent will benefit you).


The noble Scholar Shaikh Al-Baani said:

The Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said:

 

"The Best of you are those who learn the Quran and teach it"

 

The Scholar Al-Baani (may Allah have mercy upon him said)

 

And in this Hadeeth is: a direction into learning The Quran, and that the best knowledge that a person can learn is learning the Quran.

 

So how wishful it is that the students of knowledge  would realize that. Because in it, is great benefit.

 

And from the calamities that have hit our era is that you find many of the callers or the beginners amongst the students of knowledge going into giving fatwa's (Islamic verdicts) and answering questions of people; while he hasn't even made good his recitation of Surât ul Fatihah from its proper recitation...'

Up to where he said..

'..so advice to myself and then to them is that; the best of what a student of knowledge begins on is memorizing The Quran'

The noble Mufti of Saudi Arabia Shaikh ‘Abdul ‘Aziz Aalish Shaikh
Source: www.Sahab.net
Translator: Abu ‘Abdis Salaam Siddiq Al Juyaanee