Way to The Quran
by Khurram Murad
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: The Journey of Life
- Chapter 2: Basic Prerequisites
- Chapter 3: Participation of the Inner Self
- Participation of the Inner Self
- What is the Heart?
- Dynamic of Inner Participation
- States of Consciousness
- The Quranic Criteria of Inner Participation
- In Allah's Presence
- Hearing from Allah
- Allah's Direct Address
- Every Word for You
- Conversation with Allah
- Trusting and Expecting Allah's Rewards
- Acts of Heart and Body
- Response of Your Heart
- Response of Your Tongue
- Tears in Your Eyes
- Postures of Your Body
- Reading with Tartil
- Self Purifcation
- Seeking Allah's Help (Du'a')
- Reading with Comprehension
- Chapter 4: Rules of Reading
- Chapter 5: Study and Understanding
- Study and Understanding
- Importance and Need
- Personal Study
- Argument Against Studying
- The Quranic Emphasis
- The Early Practice
- Risks of Personal Study
- Categories of Understanding
- Tadhakkur
- Tadabbur
- Your Aims
- Levels and Forms of Understanding
- Basic Requirements
- Arabic
- Reading the Whole Qur'an
- Reading Tafsir Works
- Study of Selected Portions
- Reading Again and Again
- Inquiring Mind
- Aids for Study
- How to Study
- How to Understand Meanings
- General Principles
- Understand as a Living Reality
- Understand as a Message for You
- Understand as a Part of the Whole
- Understand as a Coherent Unified Text
- Understand with the Whole of Your Being
- Understand What the Qur'an Tells You
- Stay Within the Consensus
- Understand by the Unique Quranic Criteria Alone
- Understand the Qur'an by the Qur'an
- Understand with the Hadith and Sirah
- Language
- Methodological Guidelines
- Studying Words
- Textual Context
- Historical Background
- 'Original' Meaning
- Translating to Your Situation
- Far-fetched and Irrelevant Meanings
- Level of Knowledge and Intelligence
- Current Human Knowledge
- What You Cannot Understand
- Life of the Prophet
- Chapter 6: Collective Study
- Chapter 7: Living the Qur'an
- Appendix 1: Prophets Readings
- Appendix 2: Suggested Syllabus Study
- Appendix 3: Aids to Study
- Aids to Study
'Be thankful to Me, and to your parents'
(Luqman 31:14)
to
MY MOTHER
At her knees I learnt to read the Qur'an, upon her insistance that I must learn Arabic I was sent to the school maulavi saheb who gave me the rudimentary knowledge upon which I could build later; seeing her devotion to the Qur'an, reading it with understanding, for hours and hours, kindled a spark in my heart which has continued to illumine my way; and, finally, through her example and silent but solid support I found my way to a life of struggle in the way of Allah.
'My Lord! Bestow Thy mercy upon my parents, as they raised me up when I was little' (al-Isra' 17: 24)
