When Reading Qur’aan
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010Qur’aanic Verse 16.98:

Transliteration:
98 Faitha qarata alqurana faistaAAith biAllahi mina alshshaytani alrrajeemi
Translation:
98. So when you recite the Qur’aan, seek refuge with Allah from the accursed Satan.
Note:
One of my readers sent me a suggestion that the above Verse be pasted to every post that I publish. In this context, let us see what guidance do we get from the Qur’aan itself. This is a divine directive mandatory upon every believer. But unlike the ‘Bismillah’ at top of all but one Chapter of the Qur’aan, the ‘Aoozubillah’ is nowhere placed therein in writing. So we get the clear guidance from this that it is not necessary for us to mention the ‘Aoozu’ or the above Verse every time we quote any Verse from the Qur’aan. But the reader has to say the ‘Aoozu’ when he/she starts reading from the Qur’aan.
Mohammad Shafi
Author of Islamic Books


