The dear friends who have attended this meeting should not forget to recite the Holy Quran at all times, particularly during the month of Ramadan. The Holy Quran must not be eliminated from your life. Try as much as you can to make the Holy Quran part of your daily life. Recitation of the Holy Quran is beneficial only when it is accompanied by careful thinking and contemplation. A hurried and inattentive reading of the Holy Quran, without gaining an appropriate understanding of the meaning, is not what is meant by "reciting". This is not to say that such a reading is worthless. After all, the mere awareness that one is reading God's words creates a bond with God, which is valuable and nobody should prohibit such a reading. However, this is not the best or the recommended way to read the Holy Quran.
The best recitation is the kind of recitation that is accompanied by contemplation and comprehension of every word, which we believe is possible. It is possible to understand the meaning of the ayahs if you know the meaning of the Arabic words or consult dictionaries and reflect on the meaning and if you read the ayahs two, three, five times. Normally, such an understanding cannot be attained in other ways and it is mostly attained through contemplation. You should experience this for yourselves. For example, when you read ten related ayahs for the first time, you achieve one kind of understanding and when you read the same ayahs with more attention for the second, fifth or tenth time, you achieve a different understanding. That is to say, you achieve another level of consciousness. The more one reflects on the ayahs, the more one understands. And this is what we need.
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