Is it permissible to read the Quran without understanding?
Support IslamQA Please contribute generously in order to ensure the continuity of our website InshaAllah. Contribute Is it permissible to read the Qur'aan without understanding its meanings? 07-08-2009 Question 131788 Is it permissible to read the Qur'aan without understanding its meanings?. The Quraan and its Sciences Related topic Answer Praise be to Allah. It is prescribed to ponder and think so that one may understand, and to refer to books of tafseer (commentaries) if one has enough knowledge to understand them, and to refer to books of tafseer and Arabic language in order to benefit from that, and he can ask scholars about anything he does not understand. What is meant is that he should ponder the meanings, because Allah says (interpretation of the meaning): “(This is) a Book (the Qur’aan) which We have sent down to you, full of blessings, that they may ponder over its Verses, and that men of understanding may rememb...