A Personal Letter From God | Ayatollah Jawadi Amoli

Transcript:
When we are in the presence of the Qur'an, when we recite the Qur'an, we should consider this as a letter from a close friend. And we should earnestly read the Qur'an like we would read a personal letter. If you had a close friend who sent you a personal letter, how would you read that letter? You would read it frequently, and you would read it earnestly. And you would consider yourself as the sole audience and the one being addressed, and you wouldn't read other people's stories in that letter.

Sometimes another letter may reach us, and we read that letter. We only get information from this letter. [For example], we know that A wrote to B, or what Zayd wrote to Amr. It has nothing to do with us personally, we are just informed of the situation. There are other times when a close and loving friend writes us an important letter, and it is a personal letter that others are not informed of. We would treat this like an important letter. We would read it repeatedly, and we would read it with sincerity. We would try to grasp its secrets.

Qur'an is also a letter like this that has come from a close Friend. He loves us and we are His beloved. And if He didn't love us, He wouldn't have sent us a personal letter. He wouldn't have sent us the best, purest, most perfect caliph (S). There never was and there never will be a human being more superior than the Prophet (S). God sent us this Messenger (S).

And He has recounted the biography of our lives in this Qur'an. When we study and recite the Qur'an, it is not a book of stories or history. It is a book of light and guidance. And it is not the story of others, but it is the biography of our own lives. It is in this context that we are completely listening to the words of God. And we also speak to Him. He is very close to us. He knows our secrets, and He is the trustworthy Confidant of our secrets. He will make us conscious and aware.

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