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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

WHY DO WE READ QUR'AN WHEN WE CAN"T UNDERSTAND NOT EVEN A SINGLE ARABIC

An old American Muslim lived on a farm
in the
mountains of eastern
Kentucky with his young grandson. Each
morning
Grandpa was up early
sitting at the kitchen table reading
his Quraan.

His grandson wanted to be just like him
and tried
to imitate him
in every way he could.

One day the grandson asked, "Grandpa, I
try to
read the Quraan just
like you but I don't understand it, and
what I do
understand I forget as
soon as I close the book.

What good does reading the Quraan do?"

The Grandfather quietly turned from
putting coal
in the stove and
replied, "Take this coal basket down to
the river
and bring me
back a basket of water."

The boy did as he was told, but all the
water
leaked out before he
got back to the house.
The grandfather laughed and said,
"You'll have to
move a little faster next time," and
sent him back to the river with the
basket to try again.

This time the boy ran faster, but again
the basket
was empty before he
returned home. Out of breath, he told
his
grandfather that it was
impossible to carry water in a basket,
and he went
to get a bucket instead.

The old man said, "I don't want a
bucket of water;
I want a basket of
water. You're just not trying hard
enough," and he
went out the door
to watch the boy try again.

At this point, the boy knew it was
impossible, but
he wanted to show
his grandfather that even if he ran as
fast as he
could, the water would
leak out before he got back to the
house.

The boy again dipped the basket into
river and ran
hard, but
when he reached his grandfather the
basket was
again empty.

Out of breath, he said, "See Grandpa,
it's useless!"

"So you think it is useless?" The old
man said,
"Look at the
basket."

The boy looked at the basket and for
the first
time realized
that the basket was different! t. It
had been
transformed from a dirty
old coal basket and was now clean,
inside and out.

"Son, that's what happens when you read
the
Quraan. You might not
understand or remember everything, but
when you
read it, you
will be changed, inside and out. That
is the work
of Allah in our
lives."

dari seorang sahabat,
moga bermanfaat...
posted by tRieNurbayati at 12:00 AM 0 comments