}52 53 He (S) also said...

}52 53 He (S) also said: 'The best of you is he who learns the Qur'an and teaches it.' 54 He (S) also said: 'Everything will seek forgiveness for the teacher and the learner of the Qur'an, even the fish in the sea.' 55 He (S) also said: 'Learn ye the Qur'an, for the similitude of one who carries the Qur'an (in his heart) is he who carries a bag full of musk which when he opens it fills the air with the sent, and if keeps it shut, it keeps the scent of the musk.56 The Messenger of Allah (S) also said: 'One who teaches his child the Qur'an is like one who has made ten thousand Hajj pilgrimages, and ten thousand 'Umrah pilgrimages, and has freed ten thousand slaves of the sons of Ishmael, and fed and clothed ten thousand poor, hungry and unclothed Muslims.

For every letter he will 51 Appendix to The Shi'a Guide to the Shari'a: vol.4, p.232. 52 The Qur'an: The Clan of 'Imran (3): 79. 53 Appendix to The Shi'a Guide to the Shari'a: vol.4, p.232. 54 Appendix to The Shi'a Guide to the Shari'a: vol.4, p.232; Also The Shi'a Guide to the Shari'a: vol.4, p.825. 55 Appendix to The Shi'a Guide to the Shari'a: vol.4, p.235. 56 Appendix to The Shi'a Guide to the Shari'a: vol.4, p.246.

receive ten blessings and ten evil deeds of his will be wiped out, and the Qur'an will be with him in his grave until the day he is resurrected.

His balance scales will tip in his favour and he will be taken across the Sirat as quick as lightning and the Qur'an will not leave him until he has reached a station the loftiness of which is more than can be imagined.57 He (S) said also: 'Allah will crown the parents of the one who teaches his child the Qur'an with a kingly crown and clothe them in robes the like of which has never been seen before.'58 Related from Amir al-Mu'minin 'Ali Ibn Abu Talib (a) that the Prophet (S) said: 'The best of you is the one who learns the Qur'an and teaches it .' 59 In one of his speeches contained in the book Nahj al-Balagha, Imam 'Ali (a) says: 'Learn Ye the Qur'an for it is the best of speech and study it for it is the springtime of the heart.

Seek cure by its light for it heals the breast, and make your reading of it beautiful for it is the most beneficial of narratives. The learned man who acts without using his knowledge is as the ignorant, confused man who will never awake from his ignorance, in fact the case against him is greater and loss is more incumbent upon him, and in the sight of Allah he is the most blameworthy.