Divine Methodology for Monthly Recitation of the Qur'an
CHAPTER FIVE
Reciting the Qur’an
and living with the Moon
We have provided evidence in the last chapter which demonstrates that daily recitation of the Qur’an, in conformity with the Divine method of recitation for completion of the whole Qur’an over a period of one month, i.e., one moon, allows us to live in constant contact with lunar time.
We can now understand why all the long Suwar of the Qur’an are located at the beginning of the Qur’an, and all the short ones are located at the end.
When the moon is young, i.e., when the Hilal or crescent moon appears, and the month is young, the Divine wisdom has ordained that we must also live young, feel young, and act with strength. We must always make our greatest effort at the beginning of the lunar month in whatever work we do. This includes the efforts of those who are childless and would like to be blessed by Allah Most High with a baby. It is for this reason that Allah most High has placed all the long Suwar at the beginning of the Qur’an. Then, as the month progresses the Suwar become shorter and shorter until, when the month is coming to an end, when the moon has grown old, when we are tired, Allah Most Wise gives us very short Suwar which hardly tax our energy. As we recite the Qur’an daily, therefore, we live in harmony with lunar time.
Those who do not live in harmony with lunar time will pay a terrible price for their neglect of living with the moon. What is that price?
What is the implication of Time moving faster and yet faster?
Ahmad narrated that Abu Hurairah said: The Messenger of Allah said: “The Hour will not begin until time passes quickly, so a year will be like a month, and a month will be like a week, and a week will be like a day, and a day will be like an hour, and an hour will be like the burning of a braid of palm leaves.” [Sahih Bukhari]
This book invites readers to ‘think’ in order to realize the ominous implications of the prophecy of Prophet Muhammad pbuh who declared, concerning the End-time, that time would move faster and yet faster. He said that a whole year would pass, and it would appear to have been just a month; and a whole month would pass like a week, and a whole week would pass like a day; and a whole day would pass like an hour, and a whole hour would pass like the amount of time it takes to kindle a fire. (Sahih Bukhari).
This book explains that prophecy as the success of Dajjal’s attack on the system of time ordained by Allah Most High for mankind. My book entitled: The Qur’an Dajjal and the Jasad, has also explained the passage in Surah Saba of the Qur’an concerning the death of Nabi Sulaiman pbuh, that the Jinn saw Dajjal sitting on the throne, and that it was the Minsa’ah of Sulaiman’s staff which gave Dajjal the capacity to intervene in the system of time to show Sulaiman alive, talking, walking etc.
Other than innocent children, as well as those who live a life that is disconnected from the modern world, almost all of mankind would confess that they now experience time moving faster and yet faster; and this includes even the bitterest critics of this writer. Yet the reality is that time is not moving faster at all; rather it is the human heart which perceives it as such.
This book has been written to warn those who experience time moving faster and yet faster, that it is doing so because their hearts have been disconnected from the system of time which functions all over Allah’s creation; and this has happened precisely because of Dajjal’s attack on that system of time.
This book reminds the reader that the moon is centrally located in that system of time that was created by Allah Most High for mankind. Here is the proof:
Qur’an, Yunus, 10:5
He it is who has made the sun a source of radiant light, and with that light the moon is illumined, and He has ordained phases of growth and of decline for the moon so that you might have a system of time with which to compute the years and to also measure time. None of this has Allah created without an inner truth. Clearly does He spell out these messages unto people of insight.
Unless the human heart beats in harmony with the system of time in Allah’s creation, it would not be Salim i.e., it would not be sound and healthy. The further implication is that it would experience difficulty in receiving ‘Nur’ or light from Allah, as well in receiving Shifa, or healing. Indeed, this is so important that the Qur’an has declared that nothing would be of help on Judgment Day other than a heart which is Salim:
Qur’an, al-Shu'ara, 26:88-89
On Judgment Day neither wealth nor children can help us in any way; rather, the only thing that will help us is that we should stand before Allah with a heart which is Salim (i.e., sound and healthy).
A heart is not Salim when it is in disharmony with the rest of Allah’s creation since it is not beating in harmony with the system of time ordained by Allah Most High for all of His creation.
If, after experiencing time moving faster and yet faster, the reader now recites the Qur’an with the methodology as taught in this book, and then no longer experiences time moving faster and yet faster, the implication would be that his heart would have been restored to a state of harmony with the system of time in all the rest of Allah’s creation. The other implication would be that the knowledge on this subject which has been presented in this book would be validated, and the avalanche of objections and criticisms from our critics, who close the doors of the Masjid to us, would be exposed as invalid.
The next chapter attempts to explain the system of time ordained by Allah Most High for all of mankind. We are confident that Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, Christians and others who, like Muslims, follow the religious way of life, would benefit from that explanation.
This writer holds other such religious communities with respect, and does not engage in active proselytization seeking to win them as converts to his religious community. He respects the freedom with which people should be allowed to choose their religious beliefs and religious communities. He is not engaged in any religious competition intended to demonstrate the superiority of his religious community over others. Hence it is not in the spirit of competition that he suggests that the attachment to the moon, and hence to the divinely-ordained system of time which this methodology for recitation of the Qur’an delivers, cannot be matched by any other religious community in the world today. He would be truly delighted if anyone can demonstrate that he is wrong.
As this book proceeds to explain the correct methodology for recitation of the Qur’an in accordance with the Divinely ordained Sunnah i.e., to recite it cover-to-cover once a month, our gentle readers are reminded of the evidence presented earlier which demonstrates that the divisions of the Qur’an into 30 parts (i.e., Ajza or Sipara) which were made, perhaps centuries ago, by several mysteriously unknown people, was done in an arbitrary and incorrect way.
This book reminds readers that Allah Most High has already divided the Qur’an into Suwar (plural of Surah), and that we cannot sub-divide what Allah has already divided. Hence, we confidently declare that the division of the Qur’an into Ajza which now prevails universally, in which many Suwar have been broken into pieces, is wrong, and must be corrected. It is precisely this incorrect division of the Qur'an into 30 equal parts which Allah Most High has severely condemned in the above verse of Surah al-Hijr.
Allah Most High has provided us with guidance concerning the amount of the Qur’an to be recited in daily recitation in order to complete the recitation of the whole book in one lunar month, i.e., to Khatam the Qur’an, in one lunar month, and that subject has been explained in this book.
[We hasten to explain to the schoolboys - since they are the only ones who would need an explanation - that someone who is memorizing the Qur’an, and who memorizes small parts at a time in order to facilitate his effort of memorization, is not guilty of sub-dividing the Qur’an.]
The division of the Qur’an as Ajza for daily recitation over a period of one month was not done haphazardly. This book presents ample evidence which confirms that the recitation of the Qur’an in accordance with the correct Ajza, would restore our hearts to a state of harmony with the moon, and thus to the system of time ordained by Allah Most High for mankind.
Important Comment
This writer has offered views in this chapter of his humble book concerning the synchrony which exists between the recitation of the Ajza of the Qur’an over a period of one lunar month, on the one hand, and the passage, on the other, of different stages in the movement of time in the Divinely-ordained system of time. We are confident that other scholars will emerge, Insha Allah, who will take this analysis to much greater heights.
to be continued . . . .
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