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عدد الرسائل : 940
تاريخ التسجيل : 26/05/2007
 |  موضوع: Why read the Quran  الأحد فبراير 17, 2008 10:36 pm | |
| | | | Why read the Quran?
An old American Muslim lived on a farm in the mountains of eastern
Kentucky with his young grandson.
Each morning Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table reading
his Quran.
His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to imitate him in
every way he could.
One day the grandson asked, "Grandpa, I try to read the Quran just
like you but I don't understand it, and what I do understand I forget
as soon as I close the book.
What good does reading the Quran do?"
The Grandfather quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and
replied,
Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of
water."The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out before
he got back to the house.
The grandfather laughed and said, "You'll have to move a little faster
next time," and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again.
This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he
returned home.
Out of breath, he told his grandfather that it was impossible to carry
water in a basket, and he went to get a bucket instead.
The old man said, "I don't want a bucket of water; I want a basket of
water.
You're just not trying hard enough," and he went out the door to watch
the boy try again.
At this point, the boy knew it was impossible, but he wanted to show
his grandfather that even if he ran as fast as he could, the water
would leak out before he got back to the house.
The boy again dipped the basket into river and ran hard, but when he
reached his grandfather the basket was again empty
Out of breath, he said, "See Grandpa, it's useless!"
"So you think it is useless?" The old man said, "Look at the basket."
The boy looked at the basket and for the first time realized that the
basket was different.
It had been transformed from a dirty old coal basket and was now
clean, inside and out.
"Son, that's what happens when you read the Quran. You might not
understand or remember everything, but when you read it, you will be
changed, inside and out. That is the work of Allah in our lives." | | |
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