Re: Reading the Quran VS Understanding its meaning
Brother Hikmah in Arabic means wisdom. And I absolutely agree with you that it is part of our faith. But Hikmah is meant to be understood and absorbed and not superficially memorized. You see if you read a book of science without understanding any meaning behind it, understanding any formulas that are associated with it or experiment whats written in it, can you say that you understand science?
Now the word science is another word given to the nature which Allah has set up in his great wisdom. Just like he created the material world and set up rules regarding it he also set up a spiritual and religious realm and there is indeed science associate with that as well. How can we say that if we read and i mean only read the wisdom of Allah without understanding it, how can we seek to get near him? We may fix our pronunciation and learn to read zer and zabr properly but the knowledge and wisdom that those zer zabr convey is lost to us.
We can read as much as we can. Unless we understand then we are overlooking a very massive part of our religion. Where ever the arabs went they instilled their language on the muslims not because they wanted arabic to over take their native languages but because so that the muslims would understand the arabic knowledge and the muslims knowledge which they have gathered throughout the ages. I feel that when Pakistan was created there should’ve been a law that every muslims Pakistani must learn to speak write and understand arabic. Then perhaps we could’ve been more in tuned with our religion.