In ' Iqāb al-A'māl ...

In ' Iqāb al-A'māl , by Shaykh as-Sadūq (may Allah be pleased with him), quoting the Messenger of Allah ( s ), it is stated that he said in a hadīth : “The one who teaches the Qur'an and does not act according to it, and loves this world and prefers worldly pleasures to it, is worthy of Allah's wrath and is placed on the same level with the Jews and the Christians who threw the Book of Allah behind their backs.

The one who recites the Qur'an with the intention of obtaining reputation [ sum'ah ] and mundane gains will meet Allah with a bony, fleshless face, and the Qur'an will slap his nape to push him into the fire and let him join those before him. And the one who recites the Qur'an without following its instructions, will be raised blind on the Resurrection Day.

He will ask: 'O my Lord, why have You raised me blind whereas I was a seeing one?' He will reply: 'It is so because our signs came to you but you forgot them, and so you are forgotten this day' [^5] Then he is ordered to be thrown into the Fire. But the one who recites the Qur'an for the pleasure of Allah and for learning the features of the religion, his will be a reward, the equal of the reward given to all the angels and the prophets and Messengers (' a ).

“The one who learns the Qur'an to show off, seeking reputation by way of arguing with the fools, to take pride in his knowledge against the scholars and to seek with it mundane matters, Allah, on the Resurrection Day, will separate all his bones from one another, and there will be no torture in the Fire severer than his, and there will be no sort of torment unless he is subjected to it, owing to Allah's strong anger and displeasure.

“If the one who learns the Qur'an is humble with his knowledge, teaches the servants of Allah and asks Allah for whatever reward there is with Him, there will be in Paradise no one whose reward is more than his, and there will be in Paradise no high rank and lofty state unless his share of it is higher and his state is loftier.”[^6] Concerning meditating on the meaning of the Qur'an, learning lessons from it and being affected by it there are many narratives, such as the hadīth in the noble al-Kāfī , on the authority of Imām as-Sādiq (' a ), that he said: “It is in this Qur'an the stand of the guiding light and the torches for the dark nights.