Don't Be People Who Abandon The Quran

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate

The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) has complained to Allah against those who abandoned the Quran and turned away from it.

وَقَالَ ٱلرَّسُولُ يَـٰرَبِّ إِنَّ قَوْمِى ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ هَـٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ مَهْجُورًا ﴿٣٠

And the Messenger has said, "O my Lord, indeed my people have taken this Quran as [a thing] abandoned." (30)

[Qur'an Al-Furqan 25:30]

Don't be the people who the Messenger sallallhu alayhi wasallam complained about to Allah.

A person abandons the Quran in six ways [Qurtubi]:

1) He is not reading the Qur'an

2) He reads it but he is not understanding it, as if he has abandoned it

3) He reads it, understands it but not accepting it from his heart

4) He reads it, understands it, accepts it but he is not implementing it

5) He reads it, understands it, accepts it, implements it but it is limited to himself. He is not conveying to others

6) He is doing any these five things but sometimes, not all the time.

Compare the Sahabah (Companions) with the kuffar (disbelievers). Abu Jahal, Abu Lahab and all the leaders who were against the Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace), they understood the Quran and most of them were able to read the Quran. It is mentioned in the Seerah of the Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace) that Abu Jahal and Abu Lahab could not sleep at night before they listen to the Quran. So, they would go behind the houses of the Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace) or Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) and would listen to some parts of the Quran so they could get spiritually healed and then they would go back to their houses. They read, they understood, and some of them accepted it in their hearts like Abu Talib. Abu Talib knew what his nephew, the Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace) was teaching is true but he did not implement it.

We are different than the kuffar and the mushrikin of Makkah because we are Muslims. However, there are people, among the Muslims, who read the Quran, understand the Quran, and accept the Quran from the heart, but when it comes to implementing, we are not different than the kuffar and the mushrikin of Makkah. The Companions, when they came to Islam, the first thing that they did were learning the Quran and implementing the Quran.

May Allah give us the power, strength and sincerity to speak the truth, to understand, to exhibit and to implement the Quran and Sunnah.

Allahumma salli 'ala Muhammad wa 'ala aalihi wa sahbihi wasallam. And Allah knows best and is Most Wise, and He alone grants success, and to Him is the final return of all.

Wassalaam