Paraphrasing in verse a brief talk by Shaykh Amin on the third night of Ramadan 1444
What - he asks instructively - Is the primary purpose Of revelation? There are many: Reciting it Teaching it Citing it Preaching it Understanding it Reaching it But the primary remains Reciting it Reciting it Tilawah We’re in Ramadan The month of the Quran In which we recite from it Day and night from it Till our hearts might thrum it But then, fasting Where does that come into it A feast for the soul that’s been to it Depriving ourselves Of food and drink Suppressing impulses beastly To channel the angelic status quo For angels don’t eat nor drink you know And what does all that starvation do To you, struggling khalid? It lightens your soul And the soul that is light Can carry the weight of the Word It’s a heavy Word It just didn’t come Easy on the heart of a man In a cave in Makkah SallAllahu ‘alayhi wa Sallam But what he endured Imbued him with Nūr And by his wasīlah It floats on our breath till It rolls off our tongues Like dew off a petal Like water it flows And here in Ramadan The month of the Quran In which we recite from it Day and night from it Till our hearts might thrum it The more we recite it The lighter the soul And the lighter the soul Recites it some more Believers all over With angelic bearing Reciting in parts So the needle of rahmah Pulling wahy thread May stitch up our Broken hearts We do this as the moon Waxes and wanes Through the end in store When the night comes that measures A thousand months and more But a Nūr so intense Cannot stay disconnected From creatures of Nūr Who crave its sweet nectar So a portal is blown Through the heavens, its gates Fly open to pour out The Nūr on their wings Thus throng countless angels To this planet enveloped By the collective breath Of believers reciting Quran, just reciting Quran, just reciting Quran We’re now in Ramadan The month of the Quran In which we recite from it Day and night from it Till our hearts might thrum it