Being that this was the first commandment given to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), the prominence of attaining knowledge in Islam is quite evident. The rewards of reading the Quran can be seen in the following hadith:

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said, “Whoever reads a letter from the Book of Allah, he will have a reward. And that reward will be multiplied by ten. I am not saying ‘alif, lam, meem’ is a letter, rather I am saying that ‘alif’ is a letter, ‘laam’ is a letter and ‘meem’ is a letter.” (reported by al-Tirmidhi and al-Hakim)

Whether you are into reading about the stories of the Sahaba, catching up on contemporary issues, or if you are an avid poetry reader, pick up a book and read!

This reminds me of the words of one of the sahabah, “If our hearts were pure and clean, we would never have enough of the Word of Allah.”

Jazaki Allahu khayran for the beautiful reminder.

SubhanAllah, this gives me motivation to hit the books again :)

Beautiful. :)

Alhumdulillah

read Quran wid translation who tells u about life here n here after.

JazakumAllahu Khairan! It amazes me how the first word of revelation was ‘READ’, subhanAllah! If that does not stress the importance of attaining knowledge and broadening our intellectual horizons, I don’t know what else would.