I was a lost and naive person.
I had no knowledge of anything.
I didn't even know my Creator.
If I considered someone powerful, I would be
forced to believe in them as God.
Because I had not yet read Allah Almighty's
book, the Holy Quran.
But when I started searching for God, believe me,
I reached God very quickly.
When I opened the Quran, I recognized my Lord.
I felt such pleasure in Surah Fatiha
that nothing in the world had ever given me such pleasure.
I was a helpless, desperate, and disheartened person.
I couldn't find peace for a moment.
I had all the blessings of the world available to me,
but despite that, if I lacked anything, it was peace.
The day I started reciting the Holy Quran,
a wave of peace ran through me.
I became a Muslim because of the Holy Quran.
Praise be to Allah, thanks to Allah, who blessed me with the wealth of Islam.
The problem is that a disbeliever benefits from reading the Holy Quran, even to the point that they abandon their old religion and embrace Islam. Have we Muslims ever opened the Holy Quran to look at it? The Quran is covered in dust on the shelf.
Have we ever called upon God in happiness or sorrow?
We are wandering around in search of sustenance.
Whereas Allah Almighty's blessed saying is:
Read the word of Allah Almighty, it is clearly written in it:
ومن یتق اللہ یجعل لہ مخرجا
That when a Muslim adopts piety, Allah Almighty will open paths for them, remove difficulties, and create ease.
ویرزقہ من حیث لایحتسب
Allah Almighty will provide sustenance from where you cannot even imagine.
If only we could strengthen our relationship with the Holy Quran.
A disbeliever becomes a Muslim by seeing the Quran, becomes a Muslim by hearing the Quran, becomes a Muslim by reading the Quran.
They are benefiting from it, but those who are Muslims by birth have put this great book, the Quran, behind them. We should fear Allah, lest Allah Almighty take away this blessing from us.
Come, let us all pledge today that, God willing, from today onwards, we will regularly recite the Quran and strengthen our relationship with the Quran.
Insha'Allah, then Insha'Allah.