The Effect of Qur’anic Recitation and Listening to it on the Believers' Hearts

Abstract

Contemporary Muslim communities witnessed many inventions and innovations as a result of global progress and civilisation. Some of the innovations are full of evils that affect the hearts. Some Muslims instead of reading and listening to the Qur’anic recitation in the early hours of the day,  they spend huge time on social medias through internet devices available to them or listening to radio news, From these it can be said every Muslim should care about his/her heart, purify it and activate Iman in it. To love Allah, to fear Him, to rely on Him, to have hope in Him to help and seek refuge from Him and make sure that there is no any disease or anything bad within the circuit of his/her heart. Greediness, envy, arrogance and ignorance are among the common evils that infect the heart. This paper cited few Qur’anic verses that are liable to hearth softening and maintained that the messages of the Glorious Qur’an can be a mechanism to scan the heart affected by evils and activate it, to make it function very well. A lively heart is the one that has Iman and Allah’s fear, while a deadly heart is the one that is full of evils which can make it unsound or weak. Therefore, this paper recommended for this society and other Muslim associations to awaken Muslims on the dangers and challenges of neglecting the recitation or listening to the Glorious the Qur’an.

Keywords: Effect, Recitation, Listening, Qur’an, Believer’s Heart