60 Also related from Imam 'Ali (a) is that he said...

60 Also related from Imam 'Ali (a) is that he said: 'If the teacher says to his pupil: Say: 'In the Name of Allah The Beneficent The Merciful.' And the pupil says: 'In The Name of Allah The Beneficent The Merciful.' Then Allah 57 Appendix to The Shi'a Guide to the Shari'a: vol.4, p.247. 58 The Shi'a Guide to the Shari'a: vol.4, p.825. 59 Ghawali al-Layali: vol.1, p.99; Also Appendix to The Shi'a Guide to the Shari'a: vol.4, p.235.

60 Nahj al-Balagha: Sermon no.110, paragraph 6; see also Seas of Lights: vol.2, p.36. will give absolution to them both and to the pupil's parents.' 61 Related from Imam Ja'far al-Saadiq (a) is that he said: 'The believer should not die before learning the Qur'an or be in the process of learning it.' 62 The Magnificence of the Qur'an The Emissary of Allah (S) said: 'The Qur'an is a guidance from error, an elucidation from blindness, a release from stumbling, a light in the darkness, an illumination from events, a protection from destruction, a guidance against temptations, clarity from trials, and a conveyor from this world unto the next.

In it is your complete religion, no-one strays from the Qur'an but into the fire.' 63 And he (S) said: 'Whoever is given the Qur'an by Allah and thinks that any man has been given anything better than he has been given, then he has diminished a great thing and aggrandised a minor thing.' 64 And he (S) said: 'The virtue of the Qur'an over the rest of speech is as the virtue of Allah over His creation.' 65 And he (S) said: 'Allah does not punish the heart which is a vessel for the Qur'an.' 66 61 Jami'a al-Akhbar: p.42, section 22; and see Appendix to the Shi'a Guide to the Shari'a: vol.4, p.387.

62 'Iddat al-Da'i: p.287, chapter 6 on the recital of the Qur'an; see also Usul al-Kafi: vol.2, p.607. 63 Usul al-Kafi: vol.2, p.600. 64 Usul al-Kafi: vol.2, p.605; The Shi'a Guide to the Shari'a: vol.3, p.582. 65 Seas of Lights: vol.89,p.19.

And he (S) said: 'Whoever makes his speech the Qur'an, and the mosque his house, Allah builds for him a house in paradise.' 67 It is related that Abu Dharr came to the Prophet (S) and said: 'O Messenger of Allah, I fear lest I should learn the Qur'an and not act according to it.

' So the Messenger of Allah (S) said: 'Allah will not punish the heart in which He has made the Qur'an dwell.' 68 The Messenger of Allah (S) mentioned commotion one day, so we said: O Messenger of Allah how do we save ourselves from it? He (S) said: 'By the book of Allah.