A wage for reciting the Noble Qur’an

Question

Question: In our small town and in this area, even among educated people, eighty per cent are such as do not know how to read the Qur’an. Yet everyone holds the belief that if they cannot recite the Qur’an at home themselves, then calling someone else to recite it and praying together for good and blessing will be a means of well-being and success. Therefore, at least one day a year they invite a madrasa student, or the village imam (and Qur’an teacher) and a religious scholar.

Answer

Recitation of the Noble Qur’an, when done with sincerity (ikhlas), is a very great act of drawing near to Allah (qurba) and an act of worship. Whoever, because of being occupied with recitation, cannot even make a separate supplication (du‘a), Allah Most High grants him more reward than those who ask. The early jurists (mutaqaddimun)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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