> In 1987, Qari Abdul Basit was > visiting America, the same Qari Abdul Basit whose cassettes > of the Holy Quran have become famous. Someone asked him once > if he had seen a miracle of the Holy Quran, to which Qari > Abdul Basit said, “Just one miracle? I can relate > thousands which I have seen with my own eyes.” The man > asked him to relate some, so Qari Abdul Basit started > talking. > > Qari Abdul Basit related an > event from the time of Jamal Abdul Nasser, who was once the > president of Egypt. Communism was at its height, and once > while on tour of the Soviet Union, Nasser was pressured > heavily to become a communist and thus spread the doctrine > in his country. He was promised that the Soviet Union would > make Egypt a technological giant if only Nasser would > renounce Islam and introduce Communism as the state > religion. Abdul Nasser politely refused and thus ended this > particular tour. He reached home but was restless that he > had not defended Islam as sufficiently as he should have > because he was not knowledgeable > enough. > > Abdul Nasser was invited to > the Soviet Union again after a few years, and so this time > he requested Qari Abdul Basit to come to Moscow with him. > Abdul Basit was surprised because he had never imagined that > he would ever be required in the Soviet Union, a land whose > government and people refused to acknowledge > God. > > On this occasion Jamal Abdul > Nasser courageously introduced Qari Abdul Basit to the > Soviet heads of state, telling them that he would recite the > Holy Quran, the Book of Islam. Qari Abdul Basit closed his > eyes and started reciting Surah Ta Ha, the same part of the > Holy Quran that had made one of the worst enemies of Islam, > Hadrat Umar ibn Khattab, bow to > Islam. > > Qari Abdul Basit opened his > eyes and looked up after reciting two rukus, and he saw the > miracle of the Holy Quran in front of his eyes. Four to five > heads of the Communist Party were in tears. Jamal Abdul > Nasser smiled and asked, “Why are you crying?” to which > one of them replied, “We don’t know. We haven’t > understood a word but there is something in this Quran that > has melted our hearts and compelled us to cry. We don’t > know what has done > this.” > > Qari Abdul Basit said that > this was an amazing miracle that he saw in front of him. > These were people who did not know the Glorious Quran; did > not accept the Glorious Quran, and who could not understand > the Glorious Quran, yet God was affecting their hearts > through the recital of the Glorious > Quran. > > Hadhrat Imam Ghulam Habib > (ra) used to say that no one makes routes for rivers; rivers > make their own routes and ways. The Holy Quran is such a > Book that winds its own route of mercy through to the hearts > of people, which is why the unbelievers of Makkah and > Madinah accepted Islam upon hearing it. This is why the > unbelievers used to confer among themselves and advise each > other to shout and make noise whenever the Holy Quran would > be read, so that they would not be > affected. > > However, the Holy Quran was > sent to win over hearts, and God accepts those who live > their lives by it. We should try and read the Holy Quran > often and act according to its instructions so that God > makes us successful both in this world and the > Hereafter. > > Our righteous predecessors > received blessings because of their closeness to the Holy > Quran. This was the Message that shook Arabia, and wherever > the Sahabah (companions of Prophet Muhammad p.b.u.h) turned > with this Book, the world was compelled to bow. Those camel > and sheepherders who refused to bow to Caesar of Rome became > people who changed the destiny of the world. How? They used > to act upon the Holy Quran, unlike people who don’t act > upon it now. They were true lovers of this Glorious Quran, > reading softly or loudly, sometimes > crying. > > This Book has been sent to > enlighten hearts, and if even today people read it with > love, God will shower blessings upon them. This is a Book of > guidance, sent to bring mankind out of darkness and into > light. The lovers of the Glorious Quran receive the honour > of both this world and the next, like the heights that God > had awarded the Sahabah.
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