SAUDI ARABIA

Return to the Qur’an is the key to success

June 01, 2018

Saudi Gazette report

IMAMS of the Two Holy Mosques, in their Friday sermons, urged the faithful to devote their time and energy in reaping maximum fruits of Ramadan by taking advantage of the remaining days of the fasting month.

Addressing hundreds of thousands of the faithful who thronged the Grand Mosque in Makkah on the third Friday of Ramadan, imam and khateeb Sheikh Saleh Al-Taleb called on believers to return to the Holy Qur’an, which is a panacea for myriad illnesses of the mankind. “The Holy Qur’an was revealed in the month of Ramadan as a guidance for the entire mankind and hence it is inevitable to return to the holy book for success in this life and in the Hereafter. Apart from reciting the Qur’an, we have to ponder over the meanings and implications of its verses,” he said while emphasizing the need for reorganizing life in accordance with the teachings of the Qur’an.

Al-Taleb noted that the major issues that the Qur’an tackles with pertains to the success of the mankind, such as belief in monotheism, prophethood and resurrection. “We have to respect every creed and morals that we are ordered by the Qur’an. We have to give due importance to anything and everything in accordance with the teachings of the Qur’an,” he said. According to the imam, the best medicine for the diseases of hearts is religious advices and the best among the advices is reminding about the Day of Resurrection.

Al-Taleb said that the faith in the Day of Judgment tends to correct the course of life of the faithful with a focus on increasing virtues and staying away from sins. “Such a faith would transform them into new human beings who hold fast to certain values, morals and principles,” he said.

At the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah, Sheikh Abdullah Al-Buaijan, imam and khateeb, urged the believers to seize the golden opportunity to amass infinite bounties from Almighty Allah through increasing supplications and worship in the remaining days of the holy month with a mood of competitiveness in doing virtuous deeds, seeking Laylatul Qadr or the Night of Power, which is better than 1,000 months as it is the night in which the Holy Qur’an was revealed. While urging the faithful to perform the ritual of itikaf (seclusion and staying in the mosque with the intention of worshipping), he emphasized the need to know about the rights that the Holy Mosque entails from the worshipers. From this Ramadan onwards, the prospective worshipers who intend to perform itikaf will be allowed to do so only on the roof of the Prophet’s Mosque. “All the arrangements are well in place for this,” the imam added.


June 01, 2018
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