Reciting The Quran Without Understanding
JazakAllah for all your responses and guidance. Ghamidi Sahab is always so logical in his statements but in this scenario I feel some further clarification could have helped for the lay person. Many other people have asked similar questions on the forum so I am not alone in this confusion. My takeaway is that recitation has intrinsically some blessings/benefits and the individual should also strive to understand the meaning. Clearly a non-arab cannot recite and understand at the same time, so the process of understanding may happen after the recitation. My mother recites Quran daily, and i did not have the heart to tell her she is wasting her time. She also spends time with the translation and understanding but this is a distinctly separate activity. I would like to think there is blessing in both.