The Quran: A Guide to Avoid Misguidance and Achieve Success

Benefits of Reciting and Following the Quran

Whoever Recites the Qur’an and follows what it contains:

In his chapter of “Regarding the Virtue of One Who Recites the Qur’an”, ibn Abi Shaybah brought the following narration:

 حدثنا محمد بن فضيل عن عطاء بن السائب عن أبيه عن سعيد بن جبير عن ابن عباس قال : من قرأ القرآن واتبع ما فيه هداه الله من الضلالة ووقاه يوم القيامة سوء الحساب ، وذلك بأن الله يقول : فمن اتبع هداي فلا يضل ولا يشقى . ـ

Ibn ‘Abbaas said: Whoever recites the Qur’an and follows what it contains, Allah will guide him away from misguidance and protect him from a bad reckoning on the Day of Resurrection. That is because Allah says:

فَمَنِ اتَّبَعَ هُدَايَ فَلَا يَضِلُّ وَلَا يَشْقَىٰ

So whoever follows my guidance will neither go astray nor suffer distress [20:123]

[Musannaf ibn Abi Shaybah 7/156. The same or similar narrations can also be found in Tafsir al-Tabari, al-Durr al-Manthoor, Tafsir al-Qurtubi, Tafsir al-Baghawi and elsewhere]

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