038 – Levels of Reciting the Qur’an | The Qur’an Raises and Intercedes | Positive Envy | Respecting Teachers

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In this episode, Shaykh Faraz Rabbani covers hadiths three to six from Imam Nabahani’s third set of hadiths on the virtues of the Qur’an and its recitation. In the third hadith, we learn about the analogies of two types of believers and two types of hypocrites – those who recite the Qur’an, and those who do not. In the fourth hadith, we learn about how Allah Most High raises and abases people by the Qur’an. Hadith five informs us about the role of the Qur’an as an intercessor, and hadith six tells us about two people whom it is permitted to have envy of: A person whom Allah Most High has granted the Qur’an, and they hold fast to its guidance or recite it by night and by day, and a person whom Allah Most High has granted wealth, so they spend by night and by day. Envy here refers to “positive envy”, in that one wants what another has without wanting them to lose it. Shaykh Faraz then continues the section on venerating knowledge and its people from Imam Zarnuji’s “Instruction of the Student”. We learn about the story of Harun ar-Rashid and his son. We also learn that deep respect for one’s teacher entails deep respect for one’s book – for it is authored by an inheritor, contains inheritance, and is a container through which one acquires what one’s teacher will convey. Thus, it is befitting for the seeker of knowledge to only grasp a book in a state of ritual purity.