“The best person amongst you is he who has learnt the Qurʾān, and teaches it.”

“Read the Qurʾān as long as you feel a pleasure in it, and when tired leave off.”

“If the Qurʾān were wrapped in a skin and thrown into a fire, it would not burn.”

“He who is an expert in the Qurʾān shall rank with the ‘Honoured Righteous Scribes,’ and he who reads the Qurʾān with difficulty and gets tired over it shall receive double rewards.”

“The state of a Musulman who reads the Qurʾān is like the orange fruit whose smell and taste are pleasant.”

“The person who repeats three verses from the beginning of the chapter of the Cave ([Sūrah xviii].) shall be guarded from the strife of ad-Dajjāl.”

“Everything has a heart, and the heart of the Qurʾān is the chapter Yā-sīn ([Sūrah xxxvi].); and he who reads it, God will write for him rewards equal to those for reading the whole Qurʾān ten times.”

“There is a Sūrah in the Qurʾān of thirty verses which intercedes for a man until he is pardoned, and it is that commencing with the words, ‘Blessed is he in whose hands is the kingdom.’ ” ([Sūrah lxvii].)

“God wrote a book two thousand years before creating the heavens and the earth, and sent two verses down from it, which are the two last verses of the chapter of the Cow ([Sūrah ii].); and if they are not repeated in a house for three nights, the devil will be near that house.”

“Verily the devil runs away from the house in which the chapter entitled the Cow is read.”