Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam (Studying Qur'an & Hadith Book 2)

by A. Helwa

To better understand the significance of the Qur’an, we must go back in time to the story of a man who was given the answer to these questions not through words, but through an incredible example: A man once asked a spiritual master, “What is there to gain from reading the Qur’an if we will never fully understand it? What’s the point of reading the same book over and over again?” The old sage responded by taking the young man to a well, where he emptied a big bag of black coal, and handed the dirty bag to the man. The sage told the man to fill the bag with water. The man said, “But master, this is a cloth bag, the water will seep through the fabric.” The old man said, “If you trust me, then do as I say,” and then he left. For the next few hours, the man kept filling the bag with bucket after bucket, only for the water to keep seeping through the cloth. By the time the sage returned, the man was exhausted and defeated. The sage looked at the empty bag and smiled. The confused young man asked, “Why are you smiling? I have no water in this bag.” The old man replied, “Your bag may not have been able to contain the water, but over time the water you poured within it washed away all the darkness of the coal that had stained the bag, making the bag as beautiful as the day I bought it. It is similar with the Qur’an. You will not be able to contain the entire revelation, but the more you recite it and allow the vibration to flow through you, the more it will purify you. The revelat...