Does One Become Sinful by Forgetting the Quran? – Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Hanafi Fiqh
Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Question
What does Shaikh Nabulsi state in al-Hadiqa al-Nadiyya, Sharh al-Tariqa al-Muhammadiyya about when one becomes sinful by forgetting the Quran?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate
I pray you are in good faith and health. Thank you for your question.
The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, as part of a longer tradition, “The sins of my community were presented before me, and I didn’t see a sin more tremendous than that of a person who was granted a chapter (surah) or verse (ayah) of the Qur’an, and he forgot it.” [Tirmidhi]
The Hanafis explained that “forgetting” in this context means being unable to recite the Quran from the mushaf after learning it. The literal meaning of memorizing the Quran and forgetting is not meant here. Shaykh `Abdul Ghani al-Nabulsi says, “and this is a tremendous amount of expansiveness from Imam Abu Hanifa (Allah Most High have mercy upon him).”
[Nabulsi, al-Hadiqa al-Nadiyya Sharh al-Tariqa al-Muhammadiyya]
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May Allah Most High give us all divine success to recite the Quran daily, however little, and allow us to grow spiritually through it, Amin.
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[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally-trained scholar who has studied within UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan and Turkey.
He started his early education in UK. He went onto complete hifz of Qur’an in India, then enrolled into an Islamic seminary in UK where he studied the secular and Alimiyyah sciences. He then travelled to Karachi, Pakistan.
He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for a number of years. He has taught hifz of the Qur’an, Tajwid, Fiqh and many other Islamic sciences to both children and adults onsite and online extensively in UK and Ireland. He was teaching at a local Islamic seminary for 12 years in the UK where he was a librarian and a teacher of Islamic sciences.
He currently resides in UK with his wife. His personal interest is love of books and gardening.
