بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
The Prophet (ﷺ) said:
والقرآن حجة لك أو عليك
The Qur’ān is a proof for you or against you. (Sahīh Muslim 223)
Ibn Mas’ūd said: “The Qur’ān intercedes for it’s people and its intercession will be accepted. If a person put the Qur’ān in front of him (as a guide), it would lead him to paradise. If a person put it behind him (ignored it and abandoned it), it would lead him to hellfire. (Jāmi’ al-‘Ulūm wa al-Hikam 2/27. Declared Sahīh by Shu’ayb al-Arnā’ūt)
Shaykh al-‘Uthaymīn said: It (the Qur’ān) will either be in your favour, and that is if you reach Allāh with it and fulfill the obligations of this Great Qur’ān by believing in its narrations, acting upon its commands, avoiding its prohibitions, and venerating and honoring this Noble Qur’ān.
But if the matter is opposite; you put down the Qur’ān, abandoned it in words, meaning, and action, and did not observe its obligations; it will be a witness against you on the Day of Resurrection (Sharh Riyād al-Sālihīn 1/192)
Shaykh al-Fawzān said: You do not have any excuse for not carrying out what has been revealed in the Qur’ān because the Qur’ān has reached you – by way of recitation of it or by ways of the copies of the Qur’ān (being accessible to you).
The Qur’ān has also been made easy for whoever intends to learn it, and this is part of establishing the proof against mankind.
The Qur’ān has reached you, so there will be no excuse for anyone to say on the Day of Resurrection: “I did not know and nothing reached me.” Allāh says:
قَدۡ كَانَتۡ ءَايَٰتِي تُتۡلَىٰ عَلَيۡكُمۡ فَكُنتُمۡ عَلَىٰٓ أَعۡقَٰبِكُمۡ تَنكِصُونَ ٦٦
Indeed My Verses used to be recited to you, but you used to turn back on your heels (denying them, and with hatred to listen to them) (23:66). (Summarised from Sharh al-Arba’īn al-Nawawiyyah 1/245)
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