To get maximum benefit for the time you spend with the Quran, your inner self needs to fully participate. To help you do this, print off the following 7 affirmations and use them as your Quran book-mark. Insha’Allah, within a few days, you will remember these points automatically, and the book mark will serve as an excellent reminder to  increase your consciousness of Allah during your reading.

Say them to yourself just before you start reading, and it will transform the whole experience, insha’Allah.

1. My Qur’an reading will be true tilawah if my inner self participates in it as Allah desires it to

2. I am in Allah’s presence; He is seeing me.

3. I am hearing from Allah.

4. Allah addresses me directly, through His Messenger, when I read the Qur’an.

5. Every word in this Qur’an is meant for me.

6. I am conversing with Allah when I read the Qur’an.

7. Allah will surely give me all the rewards He has promised me through His Messenger for reading and following the Qur’an.

For an in-depth explanation of each one, and their basis in the Quran and Sunnah, read ‘Way To The Quran’ by Khuram Murad. You can read it online here: http://www.way-to-allah.com/en/documents/way_to_the_quran.pdf

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