Name: How Much Quran Should I Read in Ramadan? | Taraweeh Reflections
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 So tonight I actually wanted to tackle one of the most frequently asked questions about Ramadan,  particularly for those who set spiritual goals to get closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.  And one of the most frequently asked questions is how much Qur'an should I be reading?  Do I finish one khatm?  What if I, you know, don't know how to read Arabic yet?  Or what if I read very slowly or what if I don't understand it?  Do I finish it twice, three times?  What should my Qur'an goal be in relation to the other months of the year?  And subhanAllah, this is a deep question because one of the beautiful things about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam  is that there is guidance from him for everything that we do and that takes into consideration every circumstance.  So before we get there, let's establish a few things.  Number one, what you read in Ramadan should be more than what you read outside of Ramadan.  Everyone understands that much, right?  What you read in Ramadan should depart from your usual recitation of the Qur'an.  It should not be completely abandonment and then getting into it just for one month.  But there should be some discrepancy, a healthy discrepancy,  or let's say a variation between your recitation outside of Ramadan and your recitation in Ramadan.  This is something we learn from the pious predecessors.  We see this from the Salaf.  Number two, the hadith where Jibreel alayhi wasalam used to come to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam  and he would review the Qur'an with him in its entirety every year.  And the last year of his life sallallahu alayhi wasalam, he reviewed it with him twice.  Okay, so there's some level of review, some basis for the idea of going cover to cover in particular within Ramadan.  And the only way Allah describes this month of Ramadan in the Qur'an is by its attribution to the Qur'an.  The one verse, shahrul ramadan allathee unzila feehi alquran.  This is the month of Ramadan in which the Qur'an was revealed.  Therefore, it is the month in which the Qur'an is to be recited like no other month of the year.  So let's go through some rules inshallah ta'ala because this is actually a profound question,  and it's an enjoyable one when you start to look at the lives of the companions of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam.  I'm going to ask you guys some questions.  Did the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam actually give an equation for how much Qur'an you should read on a regular basis  or some advice to the companions outside of the month of Ramadan?  Is there a number that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam mentioned  of how many times the sahaba could do a khatm, they could finish the Qur'an cover to cover in a month?  Does anybody know? No?  You got the hadith right, but the number is off.  So you have the right seerah, but yeah.  All right, so there's one narration where the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam  prohibits or seemingly prohibits finishing the Qur'an more than once within three days.  So that's one narration where the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam seemingly prohibits finishing the entire Qur'an more than once in three days.  Okay, there's another narration though.  Abu Amir, you're there.  What did you have for iftar?  I'm sorry, you're close.  But there's actually a narration where there's something that's prescriptive.  So this is prohibitive.  This is prescriptive.  It's a narration where the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam mentions,  to finish the Qur'an every seven days if you would like to and to not go beyond that.  And this is actually so weekly khatm of the Qur'an.  And so this is actually when you read in the books of ilum al-Qur'an,  this is what's referred to as a tasbeer, reading the Qur'an once a week.  And subhanAllah, it's a beautiful narration because there is a mechanism to this.  One of the tabi'een authentically said, I asked the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam,  I asked the companions of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam,  How did you used to finish the Qur'an?  What was your methodology?  So they said that we would read three and then five and then seven and then nine and then 11 and then 13  and then we would finish off with al-mufasal, which are the surah Qaf onwards.  What does that mean?  Three, one day, day number one, we'd read al-Baqarah, al-Imran, and nisa.  Then we'd read five the next day.  So you take after that al-Ma'idah to surah at-Tawbah.  Then we would read seven starting from surah Yunus onwards.  Then we would read nine, eleven, thirteen by surahs.  And then the last day we would take al-Mufasal, which are surah Qaf onwards, surah Qaf until the end of the mushaf.  So this is an authentic narration that gives you some insight into the ways,  a methodical way that many of the companions of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam used to approach the Qur'an,  reading it on a weekly basis that would give them four khatms a month.  And this is something that's narrated for many of the salaf.  Im…

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