Why read Quran? We can’t understand it
Why do we read Quran, even we can’t understand
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 Qur’an.
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 Qur’an 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 Qur’an 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. 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 Qur’an.
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.”