A book is not simply words on a page - it is one mind crafting an effect upon other minds - it does not assume its true form unless through the action of reading, by this it creates a world of image and story within our minds.
The Qur’an is not words on a page - the Qur’an is not the Qur’an until its verses take shape in your mind, connect and confirm one another, and settle into your heart - only then it begins to speak its magic within you. It speaks its content not with words and sounds but with a transformative alchemy which works you over from the inside out, taking what lays within in a dormant, unrealized, embryonic state, out of potentiality towards actuality.
This is a book meant to be read for what it is - a Messenger from higher worlds speaking directly to us. With such a message reading is only an initiation of intent, a drawing back of the bow; the message is aimed at the heart, so bare your chest to receive it, and let it fly from intellect to heart. Let it pierce with sincerity and intensity into the center of your being - that center, that heart through which all the streams of impulse and consciousness flow - open yourself to it - seek understanding, seek transformation, seek resurrection - a truer self.
This is not an emotional endeavor, it is not simply wishing to achieve understanding, it is shaping and re-shaping your life in all it’s aspects so that life itself becomes a path that leads to comprehension, to knowledge that is internalized in the heart and clear in the intellect. God spoke to the Prophet through the angel, sending him the Qur’an as a guidance for us. He is speaking to us through this Qur’an - our provision lies within it. We activate the Qur’anic speech when the words lift from the page by means of our intellects, settle into our hearts, manifest in our actions, and rise again, lifting us from the dust of the earth towards the “ways of ascent.” Till then, we are slaves of our our nafs, orphans veiled from the One who made us, the spiritually destitute lying in the dust.
“…and what will make you comprehend what the ascending path is? (It is) the setting free of a slave, Or the giving of provision in a day of hunger, To an orphan, Or to the poor man lying in the dust.” (Qur’an 90:12-16)
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