The Role of Learning and Understanding Verses for Intimacy with the Holy Quran

Understanding and meaning of the Holy Qurʾān is one of the duties of Muslims, because the Qurʾān is a book of guidance and its language is simple and accessible for the people. The Holy Qurʾān presents teachings in the simplest form, allowing everyone to understand it. Therefore, everyone can take benefit from it according to their own capacity; nevertheless, its full and complete understanding is restricted to the infallibles (a). This paper discusses the meaning of instruction in the verses [of the Qurʾān] and traditions, and how understanding the Qurʾān leads to closeness and intimacy with the words of the Almighty. This study shows that learning [to recite] and understanding of the Qurʾān should be done together; and the correct methods of instruction also demonstrate this. Closeness with the Qurʾān also depends on this, and it must be sought from the methods of slow and continuous reading. If the Qurʾān is taught in the right way, there is frequent recourse to the divine verses which leads to the understanding of the divine verses and this leads to intimacy with the words of the Almighty. The present article is follows a descriptive-analytical method and the information studied has been collected from library texts.