Does reading the Quran or listening to it gain man more thawabs? It is said that it is sunnah to read the Quran and it is fard to listen to it. Is it true?
Does reading the Quran or listening to it gain man more thawabs? It is said that it is sunnah to read the Quran and it is fard to listen to it. Is it true?
Dear Brother / Sister,
It is fard al-kifayah to listen to the Quran and sunnah to read it. As a general rule, fards gain man more thawabs than sunnahs. However, this might vary based on the situation.
Firstly, it is not appropriate to find someone who is reading the Quran and to try to listen to him instead of reading the Quran with the thought that listening to it gains man more rewards.
Secondly, while the one who listens to the Quran obtains the thawab of the fard, the one who reads obtains the thawab of the sunnah along with the thawabs obtained by the listeners since he causes them to listen to it.
Thirdly, it is not certain to whom Allah will give rewards. It varies base on the sincerity of the person.
Fourthly, a person sometimes enters a spiritual atmosphere by reading the Quran and is saved from a big sin; and a person sometimes enters a spiritual atmosphere by listening to the Quran and is saved from a big sin.
Thus, the issue of thawab is not something fixed. It can vary based on the sincerity of a person and conditions.
Questions on Islam
- What are the deeds that need to be kept secret and that should not be told to others?
- What is the decree of listening to the Quran?
- Do we receive thawabs when we listen to the meaning (translation) of the Quran? Can we listen to the meaning of the Quran without wudu?
- Is it permissible not to perform the sunnah prayers? We are sometimes very tired. They say the Prophet (pbuh) sometimes abandoned the sunnahs of the afternoon and night prayers. Is it true? How often did he abandon them?
- There are various deeds mentioned as the best deed and the best people in hadiths; how should we understand them?
- What is the importance of sunnah prayers? Is it enough to perform only fard prayers?
- What can be done as charity, prayer and favor for a dead person? What supplications and chapters along with the chapter of Yasin should be read to decrease a dead person’s penalty in the grave?
- What can be done as charity, prayer and favor for a dead person? What supplications and chapters along with the chapter of Yasin should be read to decrease a dead person’s penalty in the grave?
- Does reading the chapter of al-Ikhlas gain man the reward of a khatm al-Quran?
- Will the thawabs of a person who performs prayers but commits sins be more than his sins due to his prayers?
