My people have treated this Qur'an as a forsaken [thing].

My people have treated this Qur'an as a forsaken [thing].” [^5] Forsaking the Qur'an has many stages and countless degrees, and we may possess a good number of them. If we bound this divine Book in a nice and valuable cover, and we kissed it and put it on our eyes whenever we wanted to recite it or to take an istikhārah (consulting the Qur'an to do or not to do something) with it, would it mean that we did not forsake it?

If we spent most of our lives perfecting our intonation when reciting the Qur'an, and improving our linguistic and rhetorical knowledge of it, would it mean that we brought the Qur'an out of being forsaken? If we learnt the different ways of reciting the Qur'an and other relevant subjects, would we be declared not guilty of deserting it? If we took in all the aspects of the…