This audio is brought to you by Muslim Central.com. You're going to. Thank you. Islam, al-Licom everyone. Here's a cool question from the Gulf tour. I read the Quran, but I don't understand Arabic,

so I don't get anything out of reading the Quran. Shouldn't I just be reading in English?

And then these people tell you you have to memorize the Quran. There's so many

huff-out there that memorize the Quran and don't even understand what it means.

Shouldn't we be telling people to read the Quran instead of memorizing it and you know what as I heard this

question I realized something to every action there's an equal but opposite

reaction we have an extreme in this community we have on the one hand

people that want to emphasize the

memorization of the Quran and not emphasize understanding at all. You just

become a trophy once you memorize and you are going to lead t-a-weh and you're

going to be reciting beautifully and people are going to be saying what an awesome

to jeed and krae you have and you have no concept of what's being said.

That is one extreme and that extreme gives birth to the other extreme that says you know

what these people they're just reciting it for no purpose and they're just making you know

This this beautiful sounds but what's the actual message? We should forget about memorization

We should focus all of our energies on reading and understanding and you know what this is?

These are two extremes.

The truth in usually these kinds of things lies somewhere in the middle and for so many questions

people ask I realize more and more and more that they're actually a reaction to another extreme

that makes them want to justify the opposite extreme

and not consider the answer lies in the middle, right?

The answer is at the end of the day, memorizing Quran is one of the most spiritually enriching and powerful, you know, acts that we can do.

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