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A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.

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The guidance of the salaf regarding how to engage with the Qur'an.

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The Companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, did not

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limit their engagement with the Qur'an

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to merely establishing the rules of its recitation,

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nor to simply understanding its meanings and reflecting upon them.

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Rather, they added to all of that

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a commitment to acting upon what it contains.

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This is the methodology by which the Qur'an becomes

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a guide for a person in their conduct toward Allah.

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Ibn Mas'ud said:

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"When a man among us would learn ten verses,

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he would not move past them until he knew

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their meanings and how to act upon them."

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And Abdullah Ibn Umar said:

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"We lived for a period of time, and one of us

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would be granted faith before the Qur'an.

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He would read a surah to Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,

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and we would learn its lawful and unlawful matters,

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its commands and its prohibitions,

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and where one ought to pause within it,

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just as one of you learns a surah today.

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Yet I have seen men who are granted

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the Qur'an before faith;

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he reads it from its beginning to its end,

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not knowing its lawful or unlawful matters,

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nor its commands or its prohibitions,

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nor where one ought to pause within it,

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scattering it about like the scattering of poor-quality dates."