The Lost Art of Scripture by Karen Armstrong

Author:Karen Armstrong
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473547278
Publisher: Random House

Because the Quran was God’s speech, it was infinite and could not be confined to a single interpretation, so these ‘ambiguous verses’ could be grasped only by those ‘firmly grounded in knowledge’ who had ‘real perception’.37 When they recited the Quran, Sufis imagined themselves ascending from earth to heaven, as the Prophet had done when he transmitted the Quran in Mecca and Medina, when Gabriel, the angel of revelation, had recited it to him, and, finally, when he had heard it directly from God. As one Sufi explained:

I used to read the Quran but found no sweetness in it until I recited it as if I were hearing the Messenger of God reciting it to his companions. Then I rose to a station above it and I recited it as if I was hearing Gabriel presenting it to the Messenger of God. Then God brought me to another way station and now I hear it from the Speaker. Here I found from it a blessing and delight that I could not resist.38

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