WAY TO THE QURAN

Way to The Quran, by Khurram Murad

 Table of Contents

• Preface
• Chapter 1: The Journey of Life
  • The Journey of Life
  • The Eternal, Living Reality
  • The New World that Awaits You
  • What is the Qur'an?
  • Infinite Mercy and Majesty
  • Hazards and Perils
  • Tilawah
• Chapter 2: Basic Prerequisites
  • Faith: The Word of God
  • Purity of Intention and Purpose
  • Bringing Gratitude and Praise
  • Acceptance and Trust
  • Obedience and Change
  • Hazards and Obstacles
  • Trust and Dependence
• Chapter 3: Participation of the Inner Self  
  • Participation of the Inner Self
  • What is the Heart?
  • Dynamic of Inner Participation
  • States of Consciousness
  • The Quranic Criteria of Inner Participation
  • In Allah's Presence
  • Hearing from Allah
  • Allah's Direct Address
  • Every Word for You
  • Conversation with Allah
  • Trusting and Expecting Allah's Rewards
  • Acts of Heart and Body
  • Response of Your Heart
  • Response of Your Tongue
  • Tears in Your Eyes
  • Postures of Your Body
  • Reading with Tartil
  • Self Purifcation
  • Seeking Allah's Help (Du'a')
  • Reading with Comprehension
• Chapter 4: Rules of Reading
  • Rules of Reading
  • How Often to Read?
  • How Much to Read?
  • When to Read?
  • Reading Correctly
  • Reading Beautifully
  • Listening Attentively
  • Completing the Reading (Khatm)
  • Memorizing
• Chapter 5: Study and Understanding
  • Study and Understanding
  • Importance and Need
  • Personal Study
  • Argument Against Studying
  • The Quranic Emphasis
  • The Early Practice
  • Risks of Personal Study
  • Categories of Understanding
  • Tadhakkur
  • Tadabbur
  • Your Aims
  • Levels and Forms of Understanding
  • Basic Requirements
  • Arabic
  • Reading the Whole Qur'an
  • Reading Tafsir Works
  • Study of Selected Portions
  • Reading Again and Again
  • Inquiring Mind
  • Aids for Study
  • How to Study
  • How to Understand Meanings
  • General Principles
  • Understand as a Living Reality
  • Understand as a Message for You
  • Understand as a Part of the Whole
  • Understand as a Coherent Unified Text
  • Understand with the Whole of Your Being
  • Understand What the Qur'an Tells You
  • Stay Within the Consensus
  • Understand by the Unique Quranic Criteria Alone
  • Understand the Qur'an by the Qur'an
  • Understand with the Hadith and Sirah
  • Language
  • Methodological Guidelines
  • Studying Words
  • Textual Context
  • Historical Background
  • 'Original' Meaning
  • Translating to Your Situation
  • Far-fetched and Irrelevant Meanings
  • Level of Knowledge and Intelligence
  • Current Human Knowledge
  • What You Cannot Understand
  • Life of the Prophet
• Chapter 6: Collective Study
  • Collective Study
  • Importance and Need
  • Forms of Collective Study
  • Four Basic Rules
  • Study Circle
  • Participants
  • How to Conduct a Study Circle
  • Dars
  • Preparation
  • How to Deliver
• Chapter 7: Living the Qur'an
  • Living the Qur'an
  • Obeying the Qur'an
  • Fulfilling the Qur'an's Mission
• Appendix 1: Prophets Readings
  • What the Prophet Particularly Read or Emphasized
  • What the Prophet Recited in Various Prayers
  • What the Prophet Recited at Various Times
  • What the Prophet Said About the Excellent Merits of Various Parts
• Appendix 2: Suggested Syllabus Study
  • Suggested Syllabuses for Quranic Study
  • The Shorter Syllabus: 12 Selections
  • The Longer Syllabus: 40 Selections

THE LANGUAGE OF THE QURAN

1. Learning The Arabic Language Of The Quran
2. Learn Quranic Arabic
3. Arabic Language Of Al Quran

TAWHID AND SCIENCE - OSMAN BAKAR

“Islam deals not only with what man must and must not do, but also with what he needs to know. In other words, Islam is both a way of acting and doing things and a way of knowing.” 

“Faith in Qur'anic revelation unveils all the possibilities that lie before the human intellect.” 

“Logic, when used correctly and by an intellect that is not corrupted by the lower passions, may lead to one to the Transcendent itself.” 

“It is a meaningful thing for a scientist of the stature of Ibn Sina, certainly one of the best scientific minds in the whole history of mankind, to often resort to prayer to seek God's help in solving his philosophical and scientific problems. And it is also perfectly understandable why the purification of the soul is considered an integral part of the methodology of knowledge.” 

“The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence; the empty vastness of space symbolizes the Divine All-Possibility and also the Divine immutability; a bird symbolizes the soul; a tree symbolizes the grades of being; and water symbolizes knowledge and rain revelation.” 

“The unity of scientific and spiritual knowledge is realized when each of the particular sciences is organically related to the supreme knowledge of al-tawhid.” 

ADAB MEMBACA DAN MENGHAFAL AL QURAN

Ainul Yaqin 
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