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Weeping but not knowing why!


This is a funny (but sad) incident I read some time last year... It was included in a paragraph that spoke about understanding the Qur'an, need for tadabbur etc.


Abu 'Uthman al-Jahidh narrates: Yahya ibn Ja'far informed me of an incident saying,

'I used to have a neighbour from the people of Faris (Persia) who would weep the whole night through (in prayer). One night I was woken up by his weeping and loud cries, he was sighing and hitting his head and chest - repeating only one verse from the Book of Allah. When I saw what he was going through, I said to myself, 'Indeed, I must hear this verse that's killing him and that has driven away my sleep!' So I listened in on him and behold he was reciting the verse;



وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الْمَحِيضِ قُلْ هُوَ أَذًى
"They ask you concerning menstruation. Say: that is an Adha*... " [al-Baqarah 2: 222]

 

[Dumoo' al-Qurra]


... Just goes to show the importance of actually understanding what we recite!

 

 

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*Adha (a harmful thing for a husband to have a sexual intercourse with his wife while she is having her menses), [taken from Muhsin Khan's translation of the meaning of the Qur'an (2:222)]

 

 

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