Way to The Quran
Table of Contents
v Preface
1. The Journey of Life
2. The Eternal, Living Reality
3. The
4. What is the Qur'an?
5. Infinite Mercy and Majesty
6. Hazards and Perils
7. Tilawah
1. Basic Prerequisites
2. Faith: The Word of God
3. Purity of Intention and Purpose
4. Bringing Gratitude and Praise
5. Acceptance and Trust
6. Obedience and Change
7. Hazards and Obstacles
8. Trust and Dependence
1. Participation of the Inner Self
2. What is the Heart?
3. Dynamic of Inner Participation
4. States of Consciousness
5. The Quranic Criteria of Inner Participation
6. In Allah's Presence
7. Hearing from Allah
8. Allah's Direct Address
9. Every Word for You
10. Conversation with Allah
11. Trusting and Expecting Allah's Rewards
12. Acts of Heart and Body
13. Response of Your Heart
14. Response of Your Tongue
15. Tears in Your Eyes
16. Postures of Your Body
17.
18. Self Purifcation
19. Seeking Allah's Help (Du'a')
20.
1. Rules of
2. How Often to Read?
3. How Much to Read?
4. When to Read?
5. Reading Correctly
6. Reading Beautifully
7. Listening Attentively
8. Completing the
9. Memorizing
1. Study and Understanding
2. Importance and Need
3. Personal Study
4. Argument Against Studying
5. The Quranic Emphasis
6. The Early Practice
7. Risks of Personal Study
8. Categories of Understanding
9. Tadhakkur
10. Tadabbur
11. Your Aims
12. Levels and Forms of Understanding
13. Basic Requirements
14. Arabic
15. Reading the Whole Qur'an
16. Reading Tafsir Works
17. Study of Selected Portions
18. Reading Again and Again
19. Inquiring Mind
20. Aids for Study
21. How to Study
22. How to Understand Meanings
23. General Principles
24. Understand as a Living Reality
25. Understand as a Message for You
26. Understand as a Part of the Whole
27. Understand as a Coherent Unified Text
28. Understand with the Whole of Your Being
29. Understand What the Qur'an Tells You
30. Stay Within the Consensus
31. Understand by the Unique Quranic Criteria Alone
32. Understand the Qur'an by the Qur'an
33. Understand with the Hadith and Sirah
34. Language
35. Methodological Guidelines
36. Studying Words
37. Textual Context
38. Historical Background
39. 'Original' Meaning
40. Translating to Your Situation
41. Far-fetched and Irrelevant Meanings
42. Level of Knowledge and Intelligence
43. Current Human Knowledge
44. What You Cannot Understand
45. Life of the Prophet
1. Collective Study
2. Importance and Need
3. Forms of Collective Study
4. Four Basic Rules
5. Study Circle
6. Participants
7. How to Conduct a
8. Dars
9. Preparation
10. How to Deliver
1. Living the Qur'an
2. Obeying the Qur'an
3. Fulfilling the Qur'an's
v Appendix 1: Prophets
I. What the Prophet Particularly Read or Emphasized
II. What the Prophet Recited in Various Prayers
III. What the Prophet Recited at Various Times
IV. What the Prophet Said About the Excellent Merits of Various Parts
v Appendix 2: Suggested Syllabus Study
I. Suggested Syllabuses for Quranic Study
II. The Shorter Syllabus: 12 Selections
III. The Longer Syllabus: 40 Selections
'Be thankful to Me, and to your parents' (Luqman 31:14)
to
MY MOTHER
At her knees I learnt to read the Qur'an, upon her insistance that I must learn Arabic I was sent to the school maulavi saheb who gave me the rudimentary knowledge upon which I could build later; seeing her devotion to the Qur'an, reading it with understanding, for hours and hours, kindled a spark in my heart which has continued to illumine my way; and, finally, through her example and silent but solid support I found my way to a life of struggle in the way of Allah.
'My Lord! Bestow Thy mercy upon my parents, as they raised me up when I was little' (al-Isra' 17: 24)
